Everyone I knew who covered disinformation got laid off, their bosses got bullied into firing them, or they changed their beats from actual Nazi harassment campaigns. It cannot be stressed the damage the paid-for Substack “free speech” guys did in the service of fascism and against real free speech.
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Charlie Warzel
i've been trying to see what the right wing platforms (even outside of X) are showing people regarding the protests in LA and i am not sure it can be overstated just how much the AI slop is being used to reinforce the idea that downtown is a post-apocalyptic war zone
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They were terrified into dropping the suits by his mob tactics, but the lawsuits are out there.
MAGA doesn't want to acknowledge trump's multiple, violent sex crimes, so they don't. Anyone put off by raping kids already doesn't support him.
Most rapes go unreported, because what's the point in a culture that will punish you for trying to get a rapist off the street, and will more than likely let him go if you even make it to court?
Rape kits go untested.
But we know that facts and reality never work to their advantage.
"Hey MidJourney (however that's spelled), make me an image of riots and chaos in the streets, and make it REALLY obvious that it's AI-generated. (my audience won't know the difference)."
A Waymo car on fire and graffiti sprayed , played on a loop on FOX, despite LAPD arresting agitators & those violent, is sending out lies
i'm thinking dominion V fox, murdoch, et al.
(& now ongoing ad infinitum!)
I don't think Thomas Paine came up with that
or the Hunter Biden laptop?
Or "there are no Nazis in Ukraine?"
The 38% who still approve of trump need regular propaganda infusions to keep the faith, to keep pressing the door on reality closed with all their weight.
Realistic pictures could challenge their "hippie scum is burning LA" fantasy.
Neither have moved (yet); still support them, but not happy and highly reluctant to add more.
So 501(c)s fighting for us are getting donations instead.
I feel like I might hear some misinfo at work soon and need to steel-man my corrections with sources.
https://lacity.gov/highlights/curfew-announced-downtown-los-angeles
Life in LA hasn't been disrupted, unless you were at work & ICE stomped in and grabbed you -- sewing garments or washing cars or waiting for a day job, not raping or murdering.
They picked up taxpayers who disappeared.
The footprint of LA city proper is ~500 sq mi.
It's a game we're not obliged to play, though
The first amendment doesn't work if people can just spread dangerous lies with no serious repercussions.
Like seriously can we just use the smallest, tiniest bit of common fucking sense.
I hate these people with the passion of a supernova.
How dare you!!!
Who would, by choice, want current & future generations to live in such conditions?
If anyone's unsafe, it's because of ICE.
They need everyone to believe the peaceful protesters are terrorists who need to be violently put down. Dictatorship.
The majority disapprove of the Guard & Marines being sent in. They disapprove of trump's overall deportation program.
It's not working as well as it used to.
Without propaganda, they've got nothing.
They know it's all false, deep down. But it doesn't matter, it's just an excuse they can pretend to believe as the necessary self delusion.
"It cannot be stressed the damage the paid-for Substack “free speech” guys..."
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They stopped paying and a bunch of us got laid off
They simply stopped caring, even as journalists were being targeted because of their reporting being shared on Twitter!
Is it cuz @katmabu.bsky.social is *part* of that leftist disinformation network?
Jimmy Dore, Greenwald, Taibbi, Halper, Gray, West aren't Dems. They're fringe cranks, if not trump supporters.
MAGA is firmly in the center of the repub party, which has a ton of power and must be challenged on lies & propaganda
Was it cuz they were all Bernie-supporting “progressives”?
He doesn't owe you specific coverage.
What kind of misogynist holds a boyfriend responsible for something his grown adult girlfriend does? He doesn't control her. She also doesn't owe you specific coverage.
Your welcome here: worn out
WE MUST UNDERSTAND MORE ABOUT AI !!!
They live to just make shit up for fun!😂😂
As a society, we need to decide if truth & propaganda should be treated as equivalent. If dishonesty should be protected. If the parallel universe that believes Newsom is a shape shifter sd be treated as equal to objective reality
An image that conforms with their beliefs will be accepted uncritically.
A realistic one will be endlessly picked apart to undermine its status as representative of reality.
Use AI to generate a bunch of really obvious fake versions to the point where AI cannibalises it.
or how much damage that does to class conciousness
how the fuck do you expect any good optics to come from anything when 90% of the public consumes media saying the left is torching los angeles?
Most of us are exposed to that constant propaganda. The polling suggests the majority are seeing through it.
It's not as bad as I thought! The regime's Potemkin riots aren't working.
NO THEY WOULDN'T
folk don't get it, if they protest perfectly a conservative will light their own car on fire and the media will claim it was from a protestor!
we're past "optics" at the moment
It’s SO EASY to spread fake crap online. No need to go near a real protest.
eventually reality catches up, people will have no choice but to reject the message a totally locked down media environment provides
but until then we need to be ready to endure the terrible time fascism has delivered time and again
it's hard and we're gonna learn to endure
they are very specific, historical words from people who lived through this:
kakistocracy
kleptocracy
they basically mean the inmates are running the asylum, which is our government...
we can, really, we can
this is not about tech, we can build the shit that runs platforms
this is about money, politics, sex, and power; different beasts