• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
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    4 days ago

    Zoom in: Pro-ICE bot-driven narratives dominated X through coordinated retweet amplifications of repetitive messaging that portrayed ICE as being under siege. and emphasized property damage or vandalism by protesters.

    English bot content also amplified the “terrorism” description of Pretti, according to PeakMetrics. Meanwhile, bot accounts achieved massive reach on Reddit by cross-posting anti-ICE content to dozens of subreddits simultaneously.

    This is what a collapsing society looks like.

    For the life of me I will never understand why people weren’t terrified of letting rightwing billionaires own and control a handful of social media networks that everybody uses.

    SO MANY people have already died from the consequences and millions more will.