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AOC isn't exactly wrong. We've had this occur in my country just a few months ago.
There was a mass stabbing in England where three children were killed. False claims that the attacker was a Muslim asylum seeker spread online and led to white supremacist riots across the country. The suspect (later named because the court lifted an anonymity order) was later revealed to actually be a British born teenager with Rwandan parents. He wasn't even a Muslim.
I knew people who genuinely and seriously bought into arguments that compared 'whiteness' of the British race to crime and immigration. White supremacy screeds just got pumped into people whom I had known 20+ years. People who maintained rational and sane opinions during Brexit just bought into it wholesale that life was better when there were only whites in Britain.
Absolute trash.
Oddly enough, the person who first posted the misinformation was traced to be from Pakistan.
Could?
Online propaganda has literally killed millions of people already.
Not enough people know about the Facebook genocide https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebook-genocide.html
You're right! That's why it's so urgent to take action against disinformation. I just left a comment with some ideas for what people can do to deal with the Twitter problem. As you just said millions are getting killed. What I suggest could just take a minute or two of your time and it will help slow down the spread of disinformation.
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Welcome to "we won and don't have to hide it anymore" fascism. It's gonna get a lot scarier.
I think they are giving it their all because they think it's their last chance. If we stay strong, united and focused we can defeat it.
Those who fought against and lived under Nazism are gradually passing away. The living memory is dying as well as a result and the first hand experience isn't getting passed on. After all, the growing supporter of the right (not necessarily far right) are actually aged 18-34, despite the stereotype that youths are more liberal. The housing crisis exacerbates the social tension because young people feel competition with migrants. And migration crisis will also worsen because of climate change. Worsening drought and decreasing water levels make agriculture unsustainable, which catalyses social upheaval and migration. Many historical settlements in the past have either collapsed or abandoned because of changes in local climate.
It's not really because it's their last chance, but because it is their best chance in the foreseeable future. One of their key allies, Russia, is close to falling under the weight of the economic consequences of its war, they are about to get complete reigns again in the US, in no small part to voter manipulation, and all they need is to stuff government a bit more to make it as much of a "democracy" as Russia's.
Not that I'm arguing against it being "their last chance", a lot of democracies are slowly wising up in their slow bureaucratic timescale about what's actually happening, how social networks are getting exploited, how just having one case against Cambridge Analytica did not so much stop the problem as acted as international advertising for its services, and how any advantages they thought they were getting are being undermined by those same networks propping up fascist on a global scale locally.
The US turning fascist is basically a whole globalist oligarchy turning on itself, and they know that they can no longer follow status quo or they will be toppled from down under by the those on top. The new populist fascist drive powered by the ultrarich wants to make the world eat itself before it eats them as we get closer to the consequences of global warming, resource scarcity, and population growth reaching its limits, not directly as a conspiracy but as a consequence of that's how they have always acted but now on a macro-scale.
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Rule 6: Provide an archived link to the tweet (or similar) being shown if it’s a major figure or a politician.
Thank you! I updated the post description to include the archive link.
Thank you for pointing that out and then providing the link. People don't always read the sidebar. This also brings attention to it.
It chapps my ass that most clients obscure the rules and so it's really easy to forget to review them, especially if it's a community you rarely post to.
Thankfully, I haven't run into any reddit style mods on Lemmy... Yet.
Obv, this is a skill issue, but it's clear enough that it's not just me. I feel like there's a better way. Perhaps worthy of a feature request to the dev of my client (jebora).
probably merge with the other department of truth soon
After seeing AOC's post I feel Twitter should be banned. Until that happens there are things we can do that are simple and effective:
For people who have a Twitter account:
- Switch to Bluesky and make a Tweet saying you are now on Bluesky and no longer post on Twitter. Note that per Furball's comment if you use the word Bluesky in your Tweet it will be hidden. Be sure to censor the word or use a screenshot.
- If you have no choice but to use Twitter install an adblocker such as uBlock Origin. Also review your privacy settings.
- Leave a 1 star review on the app store for the "X" (Twitter) app.
Things everyone can do even if you don't have a Twitter account:
- Help your friends who are still on Twitter migrate away.
- Urge companies, governments, organizations, celebrities and other large accounts to make a Bluesky account and phase out the use of Twitter. They can start by posting on both to make the migration easier.
- If you're writing an article or posting on Lemmy, Reddit or other websites prefer linking and screenshooting Twitter alternatives such as Bluesky, Mastodon and Threads instead of Twitter when possible. This is also good for your readers because Twitter makes it hard to read Tweets without logging in.
- Contact people in your government and urge Twitter be banned.
I don't think the government has the power to ban twitter, and it probably shouldn't. But individual users should stop using it.
Unfortunately, people are emotional little bags of shit and just want to see their funny memes.
This is why we can't have nice things. Too many people are basically toddlers and cannot delay gratification.
On the other hand, the government probably could have Musk killed. That's kind of scary and I don't really want to have a government that would do that, but do I want that asshole to die.
Also, don’t use the word Bluesky in the Twitter post. Twitter hides post with that word
Gotta love President Musk's brave defence of free speech just make sure you don't want to share a link, mention any competitors, use the word cisgender, or track his private jets
Truly the freest of platforms
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That is straight up the purpose of Twitter
So glad I got off Twitter a few years ago.
Crazy how the response to Twitter hate-campaigns has been muted to the point of silence, while we've had college Presidents called in to Congress to be chewed out over anti-war protests.
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