I got hit with a bunch of paid content from fake cryptocurrency ICOs. “Amazon Coin” for instance, claimed that it was created by Jeff Bezos and offered some special deal. They also seem to actively promote blatant phishing through cute little quizzes.
This is direct harm. I am so sick of this issue being framed in terms of “oh no, people sharing an opinion I disagree with”. And if you want to open that can of worms, how about the “foreign influence” funding and investing in manufactured consent by every major push media outlet that doesn’t give Americans any voice at all to respond, or the same money funding one-sided moderation on once-free forums? Apparently not an issue. But organic shared content, oh that’s so terrible.
In every facet of life now, it seems that thought crime is actively persecuted while real violence and theft is dismissed as irrelevant. That’s an unsustainable social doctrine.