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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
If you like just one tweet, video, Facebook post, the algorithm is going to alter what you see.
You might like a post calling Trudeau a muppet. There’s nothing wrong with that.
But the more you interact with that content, the greater the chance you’ll encounter content that has been weaponized by the Russian state against the west.
I do appreciate how crazy this sounds, but look at what’s happened. Russia is locked out of Twitter for one day, and suddenly anti-Trudeau topics don’t crack the top-30 trends for Canadian twitter. Are we to believe these freedom-lovers have decided to fall in line behind the PM during this time of crisis that could still escalate into World War III? That seems unlikely.
None of this is accidental. Russia has been doing this with social media for eight years (probably longer) and they’re really good at it.
A few years back, when I still needed a prescription to buy weed legally, the doctor writing my scrip asked if I’d been experiencing any paranoia. This would’ve been in early 2017.
I said “I think the Russians are ####ing with us” and he laughed.
Well, they are. They have been for a long time.
Boy, do I hate being right.
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Yeah it’s hard to discuss while still being against wild tinfoil hat theories. But it’s actually quite plausible and in my opinion likely. Samantha Bee covered this in 2016:
Hell, at this point I’m starting to think Russian troll farms spurred the flat earth thing, to kick start a wave of “people can believe whatever they want, no matter how absurd” to muddy the waters everywhere.
The interesting thing is seeing how these online echo chambers and influences sort of fall apart when people gather in person. Both in the US and Canada the freedom convoy supporters were expecting significantly higher numbers. There was the odd story of lone protesters in the US showing up to tumble weeds. Even further still, Russian soldiers thinking they were going to be welcomed and praised in Ukraine…