• captcha [any]
    ·
    3 years ago

    All established social media platforms are solved problems when it comes to manufacturing consent.

    • Reddit:
      • hijack admin positions of top subreddits
      • pressure the company to alter its algorithms
      • make bots that upvote favorable posts and comments
    • 4chan:
      • sock puppet, sock puppet, sock puppets
      • sock puppets to parrot your positions in different ways
      • sock puppets to shit talk your opposition with out actually engaging in their ideas
      • sock puppets to make new threads and forum slide popular opposing threads off the front page.
    • Twitter:
      • bot armies to retweet and like favorable posts
    • Facebook:
      • Call Zuckerberg before congress and spank him until he changes the algorithm.
    • JoesFrackinJack [he/him]
      ·
      3 years ago

      Lol snopes is one of Facebook and IG's "Fact checkers" and they routinely provide some of the worst analysis and fact checks out there. They twist themselves into a pretzel constantly admitting the "fact" is mostly true but still give it a false rating cause of some extremely inconsequential tidbit

    • Sickos [they/them, it/its]
      ·
      3 years ago

      On hexbear it generally seems to be new accounts to strawman bad take positions to roll the group mind back toward some goal; but being general leftists we can't fucking agree on anything, so I don't know how effective it has been.

        • binman [none/use name]
          ·
          3 years ago

          That's because everyone who disagrees gets banned

          I'm not sure if that's a good idea or not

          • BeingfromInnerSpace [he/him]
            ·
            3 years ago

            I guess it depends on what we want this community to be.

            From a purely practical standpoint, banning everyone who disagrees is good for cohesion and decision-making towards common goals, but it’s bad for growth and identifying ingrown problems.