Inciting rioters in Britain was a test run for Elon Musk. Just see what he plans for America
Inciting rioters in Britain was a test run for Elon Musk. Just see what he plans for America
www.theguardian.com
Inciting rioters in Britain was a test run for Elon Musk. Just see what he plans for America
Just over four years ago, an insurrectionist mob found each other online, descended on Washington, stormed the Capitol and threatened the vice-president with a noose. But that was the good old days. We’re living in a different reality now. One in which the billionaires have been unchained.
By attacking their opposition for something, they can seed the idea that it is happening in the first place. Once this idea is established, it gives them license to pursue the tactic themselves under the guise of "fighting fire with fire".
We see this with stolen election claims. By yelling constantly about cheated elections and fraud, Trump sets the stage to be able to cheat and commit fraud without alienating his fans.
Note to self: post a thread on !mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world about how refusing to use Facebook severely limits access to the used goods market.
I'm forced to use Instagram for engagement as a performing artist and producer.
My community is FREQUENTLY at odds with its automated content moderation, which heavily favors conservative values. Posts get censored for "sexual activity" even when there's no nudity, and performer accounts are more often shadow banned than not. Even posts in which I'm fully dressed in winter street clothes get censored as "sexual activity"
Meanwhile, I have NEVER seen Instagram take action a single time on posts that promote CSAM or that are made by literal white supremacist Nazis. Like clockwork, every time I report one it comes back with "this content does not violate Instagram's guidelines"
Fuck Instagram. Fuck META. Nazi pieces of shit.
I dread this shit. I have nothing to do with social media (unless Lemmy counts) and I haven't for almost 15 years now, but I'm finishing up a mobile app that I'm going to start selling in a couple of months and I think I'll have to make accounts on all of these sites to promote it.
They won't be happy until they can propagandise uncontested
It's expensive to have to come up with good propaganda campaigns only to have them never see the light of day
At best tik Tok is brain rot. It's digital heroine.
The only one of those I ever made an account for was Facebook back when it was like Friends Reunited but free.
Of course what you find is that most of the people you thought were fairly normal were illiterate raving lunatics all along.
Facebook marketplace is literally a shit show full of scams and it is hard to find anything, a bad UI, and no good filtering. The only thing holding it up is the algorithm to show you products (based on your browsing and advertising data). It is a step up from Craigslist, but it is mediocre at its absolute best. There are just no used alternatives in many places
We have an app here called 2dehands which has a similar scam problem, but is easier to filter out. However, the UX is 10x better with robust filtering, setting up pre-specced searches based on location, price, text strings, quality, categories, etc... with email and/or app notifications for new items added and everything surrounding bidding and favorite item status.
The new Craigslist.