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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43329654

This should come as no surprise to anyone, with Facebook, Instagram and YouTube being no better.

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[–] RykardNixon@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 hours ago
[–] rogsson@piefed.social 31 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

The fact that ppl still use that fascist platform is beyond me. Where is the boycott?

[–] Garbagio@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Honestly I wonder if this skews the data at all. 10 people use Twitter, 1 of which is fascist; 5 decent people leave, and now the site is 10% more fascist. Is that driving users more rightward, or driving off more left audiences?

[–] rogsson@piefed.social 1 points 21 minutes ago

Interesting. But the ratio and total users would both change. Are ppl actually quitting Twitter at all?

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 points 10 hours ago

Conservatives like using X.

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

most people just do what's convenient, then they repent

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 92 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Uh yeah, that’s why Elon bought it.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 31 points 18 hours ago

"Fascist propaganda machine found to indoctrinate users with the mental illness of fascism"

[–] silverneedle@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

unprecedented insights in this research.

[–] tea@lemmy.today 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Wait til they release their paper on water. You'll be shocked.

[–] exaybachae@startrek.website 2 points 3 hours ago

I was shocked by their paper on static.

There paper on water was surprisingly dry.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 52 points 20 hours ago

Which was the purpose of Elon Musk buying it all along.
The algorithms are fucking designed specifically for that purpose!

[–] XLE@piefed.social 29 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Is it a coincidence that X is also the epicenter of corporate-funded CSAM generation?

(BTW the byline on this post, "Facebook, Instagram and YouTube being no better", is not backed by the Gizmodo article)

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago

Pretty sure you had to tie a phone number to an account for years now...

Everyone that interacts with that stuff, Elmo knows.

Imagine getting a phone call from a bot one day going over all the worst shit you've done on the internet and saying if you don't do x/y/z then it'll release your history to everyone you know.

It's a large scale Epstein style blackmail ring on average people.

Which doesn't sound that scary till you realize they know everything about these, where they live, who they work for, who their neighbors are, what picks up kids from the same school.

There's no indication it's happening yet, but does anyone think Elmo is above it? Hell, he could be DMing people saying they have to vote Republican or he releases their Twitter history.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 19 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

people left on X are already conservative

[–] FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus 18 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

There’s a surprising number of very stubborn and slightly delusional (they’ve convinced themselves they’re doing good by staying on Xitter and “fighting”) leftists on there unfortunately.

I thought the Nazi salute would be the nail in the coffin but apparently those people can’t comprehend social media isn’t just a space like the person who owns it literally can control everything and easily manipulate you.

[–] Lfrith@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago

Celebrities they worship are still on there so another reason they refuse to leave.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 1 points 12 hours ago

It's the intersection of social media addiction and virtue signaling. I don't have a problem. You have a problem with my praxis.

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 1 points 16 hours ago

And how did X get there?

[–] agingelderly@lemmy.world 14 points 19 hours ago

Omg remember when they were selling teslas on the whitehouse lawn? I fucking hate it here

[–] GutterRat42@lemmy.world 11 points 18 hours ago

No shit, Sherlock!

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 8 points 17 hours ago

Indoctrinates users into radical patrio-fascism

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 8 points 19 hours ago

The Website with a CHILD PORN BOT on it Makes people CONSERVATIVE? I would NEVER Had Guessed!

[–] Kalon@feddit.online 6 points 19 hours ago

And more Nazi. This doesn't really seem like news.

[–] Ilixtze@lemmy.ml 5 points 19 hours ago

I get recommendations pushing towards conservative media in you tube all the time and i have my recommendations off. It's hilarious to be looking for writing advice and getting some woman giving thinly veiled fascism in her writing channel.

[–] THX1138@lemmy.ml 1 points 19 hours ago
[–] darkmogool@feddit.org 0 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

where are those sky-are-blue news comming lately?

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 2 points 16 hours ago

What we knew for years, huge swaths of the gen pop still have to learn.