Twitter disinformation is getting substantially more dangerous
Twitter disinformation is getting substantially more dangerous
Source: https://bsky.app/profile/aoc.bsky.social/post/3ldyajiajrk2w
Archive link: https://archive.md/es2lC
Your source is not an expert
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.
probably merge with the other department of truth soon
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).
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.
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.
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
Threads is as bad at Twitter.
Mastodon my friend
Ban Twitter? Are you serious? Which law is Twitter breaking, and how could a politician get it banned?
Can you think of any examples where a website has been banned?
Brazil banned it for roughly a month earlier this year, but that was due to the company deciding to ignore the law and refusing to pay fines.
No idea about USA, but other countries could claim it's being used to spy on their citizens, much like USA is accusing tiktok.
The other way to ask for a country wide ban is to make a very, very, very strong case for how much the disinfo spread through there is harmful for the stability of the country. Then again, you'd have to apply that to whatsapp and telegram as well, there are thousands of groups that are all about sharing rage bullshit
That is straight up the purpose of Twitter
So glad I got off Twitter a few years ago.
Is getting?
Always has been, it's just souch more visible now
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.
Not crazy at all, considering how much money Congress is getting from AIPAC and other Zionist groups.
Why do people keep referring to X as Twitter?
It's a way of deadnaming the inanimate child musk actually cares about in the same way he deadnames his actual child he cares nothing about.
Actually, if the reason is to stick it to Moron Musk then I approve.
It's confusing when you call it X. X could mean pretty much anything. X marks the spot. Solve for x. Break up with your ex. Because X is one letter you cannot search for it. If you say Twitter it means only the social media website.
What's X?
I thought it was the letter marketing departments replace the sound "ct" with.
So, working as intended?
Guy worth $400 billion buys Twitter for $40 billion (and not even all his own money) and watches its value drop to $20 billion while turning this major information outlet into a right-wing propaganda megaphone and helping to get trump reelected. "Ha ha look at what an idiot Elon Musk is!"
He may have lost 20bn dollars, but he is set to get a lot of political power by becoming trump's new daddy (or his new bitch)
Oh look, another blanket statement that appeals to emotion without substance.
Articulate specifics on pressing issues or shut the actual fuck up. Anyone calling for silencing discussion is a coward with a weak, insecure worldview.
Regardless of who she is and who you think she is, the fact is she is correct in her assessment and there is a mountain of evidence to substantiate her claim, from her own country and the world over.
And this isn't exactly rocket science. Arguing that disinformation doesn't present a significant threat to our way of life is like arguing the world isn't round. There isn't really any debate on this in the scientific/expert community.
Settle down, this seems like rage bait. I'm going to give you a day to cool off.
She’s trying to drum up support for diminishing the first amendment. Gotta come in with vague, subjective reasoning for that.
AOCia carrying water for the intelligence sector, as usual.
President Unelect Musk is doing fine with that all on his own.
Good fucking luck with that lol. Being a whiny sanctimonius tyrant won't convince anyone but the most loyal rage bait addicts.
I don't think I've ever seen her say anything poignant or pick apart any specific issue - she's always just throwing around empty platitudes that she knows a certain audience likes to hear.
lol
AOC gathered all that from a 'peek'? Lol. She's not a journalist with well-researched revelations. She's a politician gathering steam to censor twitter/X contrary to your constitution. Why are people applauding this? Do you really want the govt to be the arbiter of truth?
You've been reported as a troll and judging by how people are reacting to your posts, I think many agree. I'm not going to remove your comment, because there is great discussion counteracting what you're saying. I am going to ban you for a couple of days though. If you come back trolling, I'll ban you permanently. Thanks for understanding.
Gotta say, I don't read their posts as trolling. Perhaps some mildly trollish language in the first comment, but in the context of their further responses they do seem to have a critical but genuine and insightful perpective on the topic at hand.
Many countries around the world have been experiencing legislative overreach brought in under the guise of prohibiting racism/violence/antivax/etc, but written to effectively create a framework for suppressing any protest and discourse which any government of the day (and by extension their sponsors) can use to crack down on whatever they define as wrongthink.
That kind of predicted result strongly prompts the need to wrack our collective minds in search of a better solution, which I believe the commenter was trying to encourage.
the journalists and researchers are saying the same thing though
I'm not saying there's no misinformation on X. There's misinfo everywhere. I'm saying AOC's rhetoric is dangerous in using that to crack down on your constitutional rights, again. No government, elected or otherwise, can be trusted to regulate truth. The answer to ill-informed speech is more speech. A crack-down will only embolden those trying to mislead.
I smell a fascist
AOC is a lapdog. She isn't going to do shit.