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"Hate brings views": Confessions of a London fake news TikToker

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Re: "Hate brings views": Confessions of a London fake news TikToker

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Post by bryanrasmussen »

Aurornis wrote: post #9

> He’d previously run a TikTok account that had amassed 24,000 followers. One night, he was astonished to find, he received his first payout from TikTok’s creator scheme. > His head was turned by the substantial sum of money: “I told my wife, wow, it’s £1,000.” I’m not familiar with TikTok’s payout rate. Is it really so high that an account with 24K followers can start getting checks that large?

I would assume part of the payout rate would also be determined by level of engagement of those followers, or also people who are not subscribed but are still sitting through your content.

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Post by mhh__ »

vivzkestrel wrote: post #10

there is a also a very strong anti india sentiment on twitter / x just search for #india or look at the comments of posts made by people like vivek ramaswamy , nikki haley, and any other politician and you ll see it. I wonder if this is some kinda state sponsored campaign for objectives that are not clear to me

I suppose it's possible but I think the more basic answer is that there's been a huge influx of Indians into the west recently i.e. find an example historically where people don't end up fighting in such situations.

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Post by thinkingaboutit »

Aurornis wrote: post #9

> He’d previously run a TikTok account that had amassed 24,000 followers. One night, he was astonished to find, he received his first payout from TikTok’s creator scheme. > His head was turned by the substantial sum of money: “I told my wife, wow, it’s £1,000.” I’m not familiar with TikTok’s payout rate. Is it really so high that an account with 24K followers can start getting checks that large?

Yes, as long as you’re eligible for monetization

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Post by mhh__ »

matthewmacleod wrote: post #11

It's a genuinely surprising feeling to live in a place, but see an absolute torrent of malevolent misinformation about it. The "London has fallen" trope that has been prevalent on social media recently stank of some kind of deliberate manipulation. But increasingly—in part due to stories like this—I wonder if it is actually just all "for the views".

It's definitely being pushed by people looking for views but there is obviously some truth to it when half the businesses around Leicester Square are completely empty frauds.

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Post by suddenlybananas »

mhh__ wrote: post #22
vivzkestrel wrote: post #10

there is a also a very strong anti india sentiment on twitter / x just search for #india or look at the comments of posts made by people like vivek ramaswamy , nikki haley, and any other politician and you ll see it. I wonder if this is some kinda state sponsored campaign for objectives that are not clear to me

I suppose it's possible but I think the more basic answer is that there's been a huge influx of Indians into the west recently i.e. find an example historically where people don't end up fighting in such situations.

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Post by libertine »

vivzkestrel wrote: post #10

there is a also a very strong anti india sentiment on twitter / x just search for #india or look at the comments of posts made by people like vivek ramaswamy , nikki haley, and any other politician and you ll see it. I wonder if this is some kinda state sponsored campaign for objectives that are not clear to me

A lot of hateful content is boosted by Russian bots, there were also instances of bot accounts that went silent with Iran internet blackout.

Another example are conspiracy theory content, and some far right channels - like the case of Tenet Media being funded by Russia.

This is the reality we're dealing with, a constant undermining flow of lies and hate to destabilize western democracies.

The result is in sight, and will only get worse because one of the consequences is that these account gradually give permission to be racist, xenophobic, etc. And LLMs are making this worse.

Of course that there's a sentiment that comes with migrants for example, but it's the disinformation that turns up a notch and blows it out of proportion.

At some point comments on social media will have to be disabled.

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Post by rightbyte »

vivzkestrel wrote: post #10

there is a also a very strong anti india sentiment on twitter / x just search for #india or look at the comments of posts made by people like vivek ramaswamy , nikki haley, and any other politician and you ll see it. I wonder if this is some kinda state sponsored campaign for objectives that are not clear to me

I think it might be related to support disrupting the US work visa process somehow. Like the strange "actually Indians" meme on Reddit etc.

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Post by SimianSci »

Seems to be an extension of something we are dealing with across multiple parts of many societies. Monetary pursuit has become a guiding principle for alot of people, and its been revealed that such thinking is leading to major societal consequences.

The current Technocratic idealization of efficiency by those in powerful positions is missing the second order consequences of financializing everything, and it appears to me that we are sacrificing societal necessities like trustworthiness and collective responsbility in favor of more efficient markets. If no corrective action is taken, we can expect increasing issues.

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Post by nine_k »

vivzkestrel wrote: post #10

there is a also a very strong anti india sentiment on twitter / x just search for #india or look at the comments of posts made by people like vivek ramaswamy , nikki haley, and any other politician and you ll see it. I wonder if this is some kinda state sponsored campaign for objectives that are not clear to me

I bet there are many well-moneyed interests that would benefit from discord and conflicts in the Western society writ large.

A worldwide social network is subject to the worldwide political pressures, like any other media would be.

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Post by gorpomon »

matthewmacleod wrote: post #11

It's a genuinely surprising feeling to live in a place, but see an absolute torrent of malevolent misinformation about it. The "London has fallen" trope that has been prevalent on social media recently stank of some kind of deliberate manipulation. But increasingly—in part due to stories like this—I wonder if it is actually just all "for the views".

It's such a bummer to see such blatant manipulation, and even worse to see people buy into it wholesale.
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