On a huge election year for the world, Meta will shut down CrowdTangle, it's tool for election integrity observers without replacement - eviltoast

This is quite concerning

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    7 months ago

    It has nothing to do with money spent. One is active hatefully divisive propaganda infesting the minds of the country on a total scale. We have multiple US Senators and Congresspeople saying the eclipse and earthquakes are a sign from God ffs. Have you been on reddit in the last few months? If not, I urge you to take a peek. Even in small hobbyist subreddits now every other post is pure hate or FUD, and every other comment is someone taunting people to fight them with divisive and very obvious left/right comments, much worse than the typical “lol seems like a typical lib/cuckservative.” It comes in waves, which I assume is reddit finding and banning them, making them rotate accounts and continue the karma generating process so they can post and comment in karma limit subs (the idiotic questions.)

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        7 months ago

        Its the devil you know vs. the devil you don’t. One is trying, at least in some part, to quell fears and stabilize the nation and economy. The other is actively creating division and fear at every turn. Or course project mockingbird, any Hollywood movies or shows featuring the military, etc.

        Does Russian meme technology have a secret sauce?

        I guess you could call it secret sauce. A department of the military for offensive informational warfare, with lots of training, tooling, time and resources. I’m sure we do the same thing but there’s a reason our adversaries have heavily censored internet access and they can’t freely go onto YouTube or Google and search for topics of interest, or use reddit or Facebook openly without a VPN. They know what their capabilities can do to cripple a nation from the inside and make everyone hate each other and the government. There’s no way they’d let us do the same to them, but there is going to be a major revolt when the US decides to do it here.