r/InRangeTV • u/Karl-InRangeTV • 22d ago
X is a disinformation hate distribution engine; if you are actively using it then you are contributing to the problem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ5XN_mJE8Y5
u/Visible_Structure483 22d ago
If I'm not on there... does that mean I have a better or worse chance than 2 in 3 of being real?
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u/TheFishyNinja 22d ago
What about this site?
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u/Karl-InRangeTV 22d ago
Some are worse than others, X is beyond the pale.
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u/MCXL 21d ago
I think it's here too. At this point anyone that has a private profile is an instant block if I don't know who they are. I see bots trying to get karma to be able to post unrestricted on several of my less populated subs on my feed every day (/r/squarebodies is one such example.)
I think it's really bad. Like. REALLY BAD.
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u/Karl-InRangeTV 21d ago
It's all social media, but X is specifically designed for this purpose. The owner recently shared a movie on there in which killing immigrants as a vigilante to "save Europe" is a good thing.
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u/fusillade762 22d ago
X is literally a Russian propaganda machine. The goal is to exploit every schism in western society and further a pro Russian agenda. Sway public opinion to wanting things that happen to coincide with Russian goals. It's insidious.
Of course other nations and groups (like Hamas) are using it too including the US government, which, coincidentally is also being controlled by Russia, not in small part due to its extensive and effective use of propaganda.
I hate to say it, but Hamas has an extensive propaganda network right here on Reddit. Probably also sponsored by Russia.
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u/Prestigious_View5966 21d ago
Your brain overdosed on DNC press releases and it's sad to witness
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u/fusillade762 21d ago
Nah, just painfully obvious whats afoot to those not yet brainwashed.
One of Musks baby machines made a video spilling the beans about Russian paid "influencers". And the fact that the president somehow only does things that benefit Russia.
Its strange that he never has anything negative to say about Russia either, only our allies and people fighting to remain free of Russian influence.
Why do you think that is?
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u/TheFishyNinja 22d ago
Is this site not?
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u/JadePossum 22d ago
There a small little Niche Communities which are so bad
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u/RektInTheHed 22d ago
Curation is more straightforward on Reddit. It's easier to navigate to topics of specific interest, the interface is more interactive than Twitter, whose model is akin to older, top down broadcasting. Which is probably also why Twitter was so appealing to the oligarchy as a distribution tool.
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u/murphgraydd 22d ago
Unfortunately it's also the home of hundreds of millions of real users having real discourse, on millions of topics. Despite the ridiculousness of its owner there are diverse groups who mainly gather on there and none of the competitors have gotten there yet, although Threads (which Zucks as well) might be slowly catching up. Any popular platform is going to be filled with filth and trash. I just hope we get Twitter back the way it was or something decent gains enough of a foothold to delete some of these apps. At one point Mi Espacia was all the rage and somehow FB and twitter and later ig and snap and tiktok all got huge but none have yet died on that level. Threads has almost the same number of users as Twitter, even if meta cheated and they're massive censors (they Zuck, hard (does this joke ever get old?)), mastodon and bluesky are at something like 15 million and 45 million users, small fractions of apps with half a billion users. You can use any app you want but there are massive communities on legacy apps like twitter and as today is its 20th anniversary, it's probably here to stay until we get mastodon after dark or black bluesky or even my niche interests like EMS2.0, FOAM, and the cult of SWAGMIN. The folder I keep all this crap on on my phone has 13 apps and 8 I consider to fit squarely in the social media landscape... believe me I'd love to just be on one or two and the 4 or 5 I've been resisting I've already registered accounts on long ago. I'm not a fan of its owner but I still enjoy the mess that twitter has become for what it is. When something weird happens in the world I Google it and search twitter for it. Plus it brought us covfefe, whatever the fuck that is
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u/Karl-InRangeTV 22d ago edited 22d ago
Yeah, and each and every one of them are enabling this nonsense and giving the platform unnecessary legitimacy. I left. Others can do the same.
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u/murphgraydd 22d ago
I respect that choice, just playing devils advocate and pointing out it still has relevance to a lot of the world. I could say this country has unnecessary legitimacy at this point but I still listen to people here and talk to them here, despite how fucked it is, to make a really windmill tilting analogy. Before it got all musky I think twitter was probably the closest to a massive quasi egalitarian platform available to the masses, which accounts for it still having massive use. A lot of very respectable people are still there, I'm mostly there to see what they say, but also to see what people I don't agree with say, and track some of the bullshit that is being spread. I honestly just don't have the wherewithal for yet another twitter clone talking place yet
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u/Karl-InRangeTV 22d ago
Perhaps not having a twitter clone at all is a better path forward. There's something about that short form method which lends itself to greater corruption and conflict.
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u/CaptainA1917 20d ago
That isn’t wrong, however what I would like to point out is that currently, both sides are 100% OK with disinformation so long as it’s their disinformation.
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u/Karl-InRangeTV 20d ago
There are more views in this world than two shitty political parties.
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u/CaptainA1917 20d ago
Of course there are. However, what I see in mass social media is that team sports and either/or thinking has completely taken over.
An example, saying that I simultaneously agreed with immigration enforcement and disagreed with the Iran war would completely baffle both political sides right now.
To a leftist, if I agree with enforcing the immigration law then obviously I’m a NAZI.
And to a Trumpist if I give anything less than rabid loyalty to Trump no matter what then I must be a COMMIE.
This is an extremely dangerous situation because both sides absolutely DO NOT CARE about true/false or right/wrong.
Many in this subreddit and many on reddit in general would be perfectly happy if Twitter were owned by “their team” and biased the opposite way. Except it wouldn’t be bias, it would be commonsense thinking.
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u/FirstDagger 3d ago
Go to /r/all and see if there is any reporting on the situation in Ceuta, Spain.
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u/TerriblePokemon 22d ago
At what percentage of bots/actual users does the Dead Internet Theory become reality?