'Fallen from grace' - what?? Why?
Twitter impact plain to see. All social networks to the degrees in which sharing content is supported. Twitter was 100% and not as diluted by commercial content as others.
Twitter impact plain to see. All social networks to the degrees in which sharing content is supported. Twitter was 100% and not as diluted by commercial content as others.
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… but (see second thread-post) a cesspit of fake accounts amplifying the talking points of those with an interest in accumulating power and swaying elections.
See also: CamAnalytica, Palantir, Brexit, Myanmar genocide of 2010’s (tied to Russia)…
Mobs are faceless, often anonymous and devoid of conscience.
From lynchings to genocides, same patterns.
It wasn’t always marching in the street (tho it did go to rallies!) but the population was still enmobbed…
The glimmer of hope in challenging this is mobs are never self forming, someone with an agenda kicks things off...
We used to do this thing on the street at the Edinburgh Fringe when I was a student… ten of us would coalesce slowly around the first person who’d be pointing and saying to the sky: “it’s coming” …
We’d then peel off, one by one, until we’d leave a self-sustaining crowd waiting for nothing.
With the right footfall and a wide pavement it can sustain for 20+ minutes unsupported.
World is full of that.
That's not even needed today. I can run psyops and disinformation at scale for £100k a year with 2 people max.
Re. SF: for writing and commentary in the past / about the past, which is sometimes blithely accepting of historic institutional abuse.