Russian and Chinese Bots Fueling Online ‘Violence’ After Charlie Kirk Shooting
Russian and Chinese Bots Fueling Online ‘Violence’ After Charlie Kirk Shooting

Russian and Chinese Bots Fueling Online ‘Violence’ After Charlie Kirk Shooting

Russian and Chinese Bots Fueling Online ‘Violence’ After Charlie Kirk Shooting
Russian and Chinese Bots Fueling Online ‘Violence’ After Charlie Kirk Shooting
Paid for by various organizations in America.
Cambridge Analytica provided proof of concept, the bastards.
Trump is a pedo
RELEASE THE FILES
Don't blame American lunatics on Russians and Chinese. It wasn't the Russians or the Chinese that voted for Trump or shot Charlie Kirk.
I mean Laura loomer is clearly a lizard in the least convincing skin suit I've ever seen
Hey, guess who invented Fox News. You think they stopped there as the internet became the new battleground? Why don't we hear about what the GOP bots are doing? China and Russia, though guilty themselves, are generally red herrings in these contexts because the GOP doesn't want the fingers pointed where they belong.
Russian bots are gop bots.
I don't think the GOP isn't trying, but I think Russia in particular is just way ahead of the game where this stuff is concerned. Democrats in no way have a monopoly on just being coked-up boomers bouncing around Washington having no real coherent idea of what successful political strategy looks like and not really having to care. I think most of the successful non-mainstream-media manipulation and funding comes from outside the country, it just happens that what they want to happen lines up with promoting the GOP by coincidence.
whos actually distrbuting disinfo to fox, its putin, Murdoch and putin has been seen several times working together.
Love being called a Russian bot for a brand new reason every 3 months.
Maybe stop saying the exact things the Russian bots are saying?
I don't at all think that every single person (or even most of them) that thinks shooting right-wing politicians is a good idea, is a Russian bot. But definitely I think you should rethink what you believe and closely and calmly read up on what the people who disagree with you think about it, if you're so similar to the literal Russian bots that people are prone to confusing you for one.
The people I "disagree with" already want to send people like me to camps? They are already sending some citizens to countries they have literally never been to. We are past the point where simple words will do.
Show me a Russian bot on Lemmy. I, and I'm sure plenty of instance admins would love to know what they look like.
Exactly what a Russian bot would say
So of course, I had to check your comment history and, though it's evident you are not trying to be a social saboteur, your manner can be quite abrasive or even arrogant at times and thus seem like a provocateur.
So if that's part of your schtick, I guess you might as well just get used to the accusations now and then.
When last night's phone call from the folks turned to Kirk and violence, I made a point to mention that, yes, there were lots of posts for violent 'retribution', but we have no idea how many are just bots trying to stir the pot rather than actual people -- but consoled? them that it was still proper to worry because surely those posts would convince some suggestible people that the bot-post ideas are a widely held and acceptable reaction.
The number of AI generated images reinforcing the apoplectic right’s unchecked hatred of the left is astonishing, along with a flood of pic/text images along the same lines. Just blind hatred all demanding something be done to the left.
I am so glad I abandoned Instagram and friends. I have no idea about this and I would be unhappy to see it in action.
I have been more active, but I don't know about a "tremendous amount"
It might be true that there are bad actors - some even from china or russia - that are intentionally stoking tensions in the us, but dismissing that tension as manufactured would be a mistake.
Democracy is supposed to be a pressure valve for political dissent, and when those institutions start failing to address the demands of citizens, they start looking for more and more extreme ways to make their dissatisfaction known. American democracy stopped addressing the grievances of the people long before 2016 came along. Trump himself embodies an antiestablishment resentment that could be seen making itself known all the way back in 2008 and 2012, most vividly (in my mind, at least) during the townhall with Romney in 2011 when the conservative members in the crowd yelled at him that Obama was a terrorist. Both parties have been trying to suppress the populist sentiment in their respective bases for a long time, and 2016 was merely a watershed moment for what was set in motion a long time ago.
Which is why I find myself with mixed feelings in the wake of Kirk's death; catharsis, for seeing a stochastic agitative propagandist being on the receiving end of the violent environment he actively created and advocated for, and fear and frustration, for knowing that his death will do nothing to quell the surge in fascism and likely only embolden many more to do the same.
Well it shouldn't be so easy tbh
True that, our society is soft and complacent and that is the cause of most of our problems.
What does being soft and complacent even mean??? Western states do everything they can to propagandize people since birth, so whenever some racist asshole is the only one to use glaringly obvious contradictions -that no one in power will address (because it endagers their position)- people will accept that asshole as a truthsayer.
Perfect example: immigration
what the hell is "online violence"
Framing to attack free speech.
Stop with the bs. Americans are doing this all by themselves
Oh, my bad.
Daily beast article spreading dubious info pointing fingers at Russians and Chinese bots, based on what Cox said.
What does "vs disinfo" mean? "Fediverse vapidly slinging disinfo"?
Even though this influence campaigns exist there is way too big of an attempt to paint all internal American born violence and hate movements as "foreign" that is wildly inaccurate. America doesn't need outside influence given its birth and long history of "native" hatred, oppression and violence,
Unrelated but gdamn his face is shrunken
Those bots have been so successful the past few years that if they shut them all down tomorrow, it wouldn't matter because they managed to radicalize enough idiots to keep it going.
They've actually studied this and found it not to be true. I'll look for the study later, but it said that if you cut off access to Fox News and Facebook, people get less racist and wanting to do harm.
Do they really? Or are they just less emboldened to verbalize their bigotry?
well actually, it actually stops thier momentum. case in point on reddit, when they were actually clean sweeping all the propaganda bot, the site remained extremely quiet for a few days of any astroturfing or "both sides" bs. yea it doesnt stop the violence, they just lose steam really quickly. the Right constantly need something to poke them into action.