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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

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I can't believe I have to tell journalists this, but disappearing people for constitutionally protected free speech is not an "arrest." SMDH

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 53 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Also, watch for opposites. I've seen this the most lately. The current administration does something super duper nazi and/or fascist, then it's always the democrats fault. It seems to be working somehow?

“Once we isolate key people, we look for people we know are in their upstream – people that they read posts from, but who themselves are less influential. We then either start flame wars with bots to derail the conversations that are influencing influential people, or else send off specific tasks for sockpuppets (changing this wording of an idea here; cause an ideological split there; etc).”

The goal is to keep opinions we don't want fragmented and from coalescing in to a single voice for long enough that the memes we do want can,...

https://archive.is/PoUMo

[–] FoolishAchilles@lemm.ee 22 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Took the time to read the whole thread you referenced and it was worth the time imo. Also took me too long to realize it’s from 10 fuckin years ago… we’re undoubtedly reaping our “reward” from the apathy and ignorance at that time about how these tools could be used to influence the general populace through just social media and consumer data. Womp womp :(

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