You’ve pointed out problems with (shadow)bans of organic, real person profiles & the uncontrolled spread of right-wing misinformation & propaganda.
I’m not talking about accounts of politicians.
Politicians are not everyone’s peers.
People more strongly engage with messages spread through their network of peers.
That’s why I’m suggesting adopting the same propaganda machine tactics.
That includes bots feigning right-wing accounts to gain clout with right-wing communities, then when they have enough credibility, deftly inject left-wing ideas into “right-wing propaganda”, spread misinformation damaging the right, denounce right-wing figures as not “right-wing” enough.
Fight lies with lies, inflame tensions, cut rifts into the right.
To Brazilian sociologist Sérgio Amadeu, “online social networks and platforms controlled by big tech companies are geopolitical structures increasingly aligned with the far right.” In June, at seminars held by Bolsonaro’s right-wing Liberal party (PL), executives from Meta gave workshops teaching how to use AI and achieve greater reach on the platform.
The left could very well do likewise to “use AI and achieve greater reach on the platform”.
Instead of resist and try to restrict the lies & propaganda, they could embrace & turn the same tactics against them.
they would never allow such botting for left wing ideas like they do fascists.
I’ve yet to see that.
Social media like reddit is overrun with bots & fake content that they seem unable or uninterested to prevent.
It’s an arms race between platform operators & bot operators working new ways to raise & defeat moderator controls.
Shit gets through anyway.
It’s a matter of competing & doing in kind.
You’ve pointed out problems with (shadow)bans of organic, real person profiles & the uncontrolled spread of right-wing misinformation & propaganda. I’m not talking about accounts of politicians. Politicians are not everyone’s peers. People more strongly engage with messages spread through their network of peers.
That’s why I’m suggesting adopting the same propaganda machine tactics. That includes bots feigning right-wing accounts to gain clout with right-wing communities, then when they have enough credibility, deftly inject left-wing ideas into “right-wing propaganda”, spread misinformation damaging the right, denounce right-wing figures as not “right-wing” enough. Fight lies with lies, inflame tensions, cut rifts into the right.
Since you’re referring to Brazil, another article on the topic mentions
The left could very well do likewise to “use AI and achieve greater reach on the platform”. Instead of resist and try to restrict the lies & propaganda, they could embrace & turn the same tactics against them.
I’ve yet to see that. Social media like reddit is overrun with bots & fake content that they seem unable or uninterested to prevent. It’s an arms race between platform operators & bot operators working new ways to raise & defeat moderator controls. Shit gets through anyway. It’s a matter of competing & doing in kind.
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