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Re: Signs you're following a fake Twitter account

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Post by GrinningFool »

datashow wrote: post #136
GrinningFool wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would you limit yourself to hearing only people who have large followings?

Because there are already too much info on Twitter. No?

There is, but popularity doesn't seem like a good filter to determine the value of a given feed.

Re: Signs you're following a fake Twitter account

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Post by subjectsigma »

Hopefully this is not too off-topic, but - I like that the article focuses on a bot spamming far-left propaganda. I have tried to encourage my far-right relatives to stop knee-jerk sharing political articles and memes and to diversify their news sources, but for some reason they think that anyone who is worried about fake news, bots, or manipulating elections must be a Satan-worshipping communist. I assume this is because the media has tried their absolute hardest to use these facts to slander Trump.

How can we get people to stop focusing so much on the politics and see this as kind of data integrity or trust issue? Showing that "it's not your tribe's fault" is more emotional than rational but people may actually respond to that.

Re: Signs you're following a fake Twitter account

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Post by HenryBemis »

chance_state wrote: post #123
HenryBemis wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I 'like' it so much (not really) when people from the USA say/write "left" when they have absolutely no idea what left/communism is, apart from what they HEAR. I don't think that more than 1mil people in the USA have lived in the USSR block or the countries of their influence, or have studied communism thoroughly. And you can recognize the trolls when one says/writes "Left" in the most capitalistic country on this pl…

Did you reply to the wrong comment?

I purposely left spaces between the different "sections" of my semi-long post, just to separate the items/topics. The post I was replying was too 'thick' (imho) and I was just disentangling that spaghetti. (Russia, Left, caring for the fellow human/social reforms, illiteracy).

Re: Signs you're following a fake Twitter account

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Post by yummypaint »

Kaiyou wrote: post #158
Polylactic_acid wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You say that the problem is overblown but then go on to talk about the dangerous effects the problem has on discourse. Not only are the bots spewing out propaganda, but as you say they destroy the trust we have in each other which further builds the mindset of "Anything I believe in is true and anything else must be bots". In my mind this makes the bot problem very bad. The problem is made even worse when you have no…

Someone just has to put 10 minutes in, the rest is copy paste.

Then a casual observer will see two sides apparently debating an issue, and infer a false equivalency. The media is especially guilty of assuming that people who disagree with equal passion must be equally correct. I dont think anyone would claim that bots are improving the quality of discourse.

Re: Signs you're following a fake Twitter account

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Post by Polylactic_acid »

marknutter wrote: post #159
Polylactic_acid wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You say that the problem is overblown but then go on to talk about the dangerous effects the problem has on discourse. Not only are the bots spewing out propaganda, but as you say they destroy the trust we have in each other which further builds the mindset of "Anything I believe in is true and anything else must be bots". In my mind this makes the bot problem very bad. The problem is made even worse when you have no…

Or maybe they've never gotten what they feel to be an acceptable or compelling answer.

There never will be an acceptable or compelling answer to these people though. They refuse to accept new information or anything that is different to the talking point they have latched on to. Its especially true for bad news, we all want climate change to be a hoax, its much more convenient to believe this than to accept reality.

Re: Signs you're following a fake Twitter account

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Post by Kaiyou »

yummypaint wrote: post #164
Kaiyou wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Someone just has to put 10 minutes in, the rest is copy paste.

Then a casual observer will see two sides apparently debating an issue, and infer a false equivalency. The media is especially guilty of assuming that people who disagree with equal passion must be equally correct. I dont think anyone would claim that bots are improving the quality of discourse.

I don't think it's at all possible to have something resembling a discourse on Twitter.
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