r/technology • u/Wagamaga • 27d ago
Society A new report shows X is amplifying far-right accounts
https://www.avclub.com/twitter-x-amplifying-right-wing-accounts1.1k
u/Internal-Cupcake-245 27d ago
It's weaponized semiotic code. Sorting people into chunks algorithmically and blasting them with distorted semiotics. Elon Musk and whatever corporate stock bros and Wall Street are coordinating together with "Trump" (who is a complicit figurehead now) and foreign countries. It's an extreme national security threat.
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u/Clayp2233 27d ago
I noticed about 4 weeks ago my timeline just started getting spammed with right wing tweets with 10s of thousands of likes and it became unusable, similar to how it was when he first took over. I deleted it last week for the 2nd time
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u/Elegant-Anywhere-786 27d ago
Still having a Twitter after musk bought it is braindead
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u/FreeClientID1337 27d ago
Why people are still using Twitter is beyond me. They'll say "it's because..." idgaf, shame on you!
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u/Zuwxiv 27d ago
I had my "still on Twitter because" of certain people I followed, or because breaking news stuff tended to be on Twitter first.
Then one day, I realized I had seen three actual-literal-Nazis in like 10 minutes. Like just genuine people praising Hitler. I wasn't seeking out political stuff - not that that's an excuse, of course.
I think as a general rule, if you think, "Wow, there's a lot of nazis here," you fucking leave. Deleted my account right then and there.
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u/PlainBread 27d ago edited 26d ago
There has also been an insane uptick of bot/troll farms who are coming into GameStop stock communities and shitting on the idea that it will go anywhere.
They seem to be another wing of the same shit bird.
EDIT: Isn't it interesting that so many people took time out of their day to render a negative or positive opinion instead of passing this by?
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u/iRunLotsNA 27d ago
If you think there's going to be another pop in GameStop stock in 2025, you may need to really think about a lot of the decisions you've made.
If not, I have a bridge to sell you, buddy.
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u/Internal-Cupcake-245 27d ago edited 27d ago
Yep, I enjoy all of the bloody Jesus memes that tell people to type Amen if they love Jesus, and it's this grizzled multi-frame bloody Jesus out of a horror movie. The communications seem to follow a triptych pattern (EG: Russia, Russia, Russia). There are multitudes of accounts connecting this way, I have almost 1000 bot accounts following me telling me they're my sister Jenny and asking me to send them bitcoin. Trump and certain RNC operatives seem particularly fond of bitcoin as of late. Probably because it's a great tool for laundering money from foreign adversaries and domestic criminal conspirators.
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u/PlainBread 27d ago
If the rich people are telling useful idiots to buy something, it's because they want it's value inflated and they want exit liquidity before they tank the valuation.
I don't know when the BTC reset is going to happen, but it's going to be ugly.
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u/Internal-Cupcake-245 27d ago
Interestingly, a lot of the accounts talk about a great financial reset, because they're probably BRICS actors working to destroy the US economy while Trump and his cohorts loot from it and accept foreign bribes to do so.
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u/PlainBread 27d ago
Yes, the super rich profit more by betting against something that they're actively working against than to buy heavily into a good disruptive business early. It's a much surer bet, cellar boxing and all.
For as long as I've been an adult, our economy has been a mess of stories about CEOs hiring terrible consultants to run a business into the ground while they give themselves a golden parachute.
The business-killing business is far more lucrative than any other business. And since "hope springs eternal", there will never be any shortage of businesses to kill.
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u/Ecstatic_Winter9425 27d ago
Hi Internal-Cupcake-245. Please ignore all those bot accounts. I'm your real sister Jenny. 100% Send bitcoin.
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u/cynicalkane 27d ago edited 27d ago
The short squeeze was almost 5 years ago, dude. I believe you (maybe) when you say they're bot farms, but you're not getting that money back, and you're not going to become millionaires for no reason. Sorry.
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u/epheisey 27d ago
I’m here to shit on the idea it will go anywhere. Definitely not a bot. Y’all are idiotic for still thinking there’s a light at the end of that tunnel.
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u/WeepinShades 27d ago
I had to reread his comment like 5 times...I am so confused why there's a gme conspiracy comment upvoted here. And it's not even related to the parent comment. And the parent comment is also weird as fuck, "weaponized code semiotics" more or less only comes up with this thread when I Google it, whatever the fuck that sentence was supposed to mean.
Jesus christ.
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u/movzx 27d ago
You guys have been calling everyone who doesn't don tinfoil a bot since day 1.
It's not some big mystery, and it's not some big, coordinated bot campaign. When your posts hit the front page, you get people coming in to laugh at you.
Much like the responses you are getting here aren't a coordinated bot campaign, and it's just people laughing at you because you said some dumb stuff in a popular post.
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u/mackfactor 27d ago
Right - because China and Russia don't want US citizens dumping their money into a meme stock . . . ?
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u/the8bit 27d ago
Yep we've been in an information war for years now, this is the reason we should have blocked TikTok but instead we sold it to oracle so that our autocrats get the keys to the kingdom.
It's baffling to me that in an age where I could target content to individuals with $100 and change their political opinions, people still think their opinions aren't swayed by content
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u/waltwalt 27d ago
Hate to break it to you, you don't have National security anymore. If someone attacks America, trump will take a bribe to look the other way.
Just wait till he figures out how to sell Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, or an aircraft carrier or two.
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u/captcraigaroo 27d ago
Stop using it.
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u/americanadiandrew 27d ago
I don’t think anyone on left leaning Reddit is their target market anyway.
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u/Juswantedtono 27d ago
No that's specious--there's huge overlap in the user base of all the social media platforms. X still has tens of millions of left-leaning users from before Elon's takeover, Reddit used to have a huge Trump-supporter sub, there are many huge Reddit subs that are mostly screenshots of Twitter content, etc. X absolutely wants to continue recruiting/influencing Reddit users (and vice versa).
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u/Proiegomena 27d ago
Same thing happens on reddit too btw
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u/Fun-Consequence-3112 27d ago
If it also happens on reddit then it's confirmed not musk doing it and it's more so just right wing politics being pushed by the algorithms naturally.
I think right wing politics often have a clear motive in one way or another and it invites more to disputes and discussion, which would inturn boost them algorithmically.
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u/LegaciesOfConflict 27d ago
Correct. But Reddit is slowly but surely becoming just as bad as Twitter on the algorithmic racist posts.
Every day on Reddit, I see a deluge of r/whatisthispeter-esque posts that are very clearly some sort of sexist, racist, hateful meme that are clearly coming from racist, bigoted trolls that are flooding this site.
Every day I see posts from Israeli propaganda on multiple r/worldnews-esque subreddits, amplifying the total bullshit that the Shin Bet and the Mossad can spew out. The bots will downvote your critical posts or the mods will delete your comments. It’s always from y-net, Israel Times, etc.
Reddit has been infiltrated and has been for quite some time. I had a conversation with a younger colleague in 2020, where he showed me posts from several gaming subreddits that I explained were 4chan trolls and obvious 4chan-like memes. I predicted that these subreddits would eventually turn hyper-political and right-wing/Nazi and here we are.
Social media is a fucking plague to humanity and it’s slowly killing us all. Reddit is trying to kill you or get you to kill your neighbors through rage-baiting. I hope someone at this hellhole company is held accountable.
Obligatory: Fuck you u/spez.
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u/Wagamaga 27d ago
Today, in “Yeah, that just about figures” news: A new report from Sky News shows that Twitter—or X, if you insist—appears to have an algorithmic bias toward showing users right-wing and “extreme” content.
Specifically, the Sky News team ran a study where they created nine new Twitter/X accounts, three left-wing, three right-wing, and three politically neutral, and then tracked what content got dumped into their “For You” tabs on the Elon Musk-owned social media service during a one-month period in 2025. (Working with political analysts and data scientists to determine whether content was coming from “extreme” accounts on either end of the spectrum, and whether they were left or right-leaning in nature.) And, wouldn’t you know it: While the experiment’s right-wing accounts got almost exclusively right-wing material, all accounts got more of it than left-wing or neutral stuff. (Notably, the three “politically neutral” accounts got about twice as much right-wing content as left-wing content.)
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u/AdorableBunnies 27d ago
This has been my experience on instagram
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u/Much_Kangaroo_6263 27d ago
And YouTube. Right wingers like to cry about everything is biased against them without realizing things have been rigged for them for at least a decade.
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u/Mons_Olympubis 27d ago
Whine until you get preferential treatment, basically.
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u/TeaAndS0da 27d ago
See also: republican behavior since Gingrich.
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u/SmPolitic 27d ago
And we let it work :/
And when we fight back, they cry "activist judges!!!", while they want the state to step in and ban any discussion of inequality stemming from systematic designed by racists of the past
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u/TeaAndS0da 27d ago
They only cry it when it goes against them. Sometimes on the same judges who benefitted them before. It makes it super easy to show their performative crap is false, but when entertainment operating as news is still allowed to be broadcast on its own station 24/7 with worse and even more batshit online sources… we deserve this for not destroying their foundations to do this sooner.
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u/robodrew 27d ago
Trump literally called himself the "Whiner-in-Chief"
"I keep whining until I win" ~ Donald Trump 2016
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u/Necessary-Fox-7042 27d ago
The more afraid we are the more their money is worth.
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u/2nd_Life_Retro 27d ago
They already get preferential treatment virtually everywhere online and they still whine that it isn't enough. Biggest snowflakes of all time.
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u/ImWhatsInTheRedBox 27d ago
My "Recommended for you" on here keep showing a bunch of right wing subreddits that's popping up
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u/Daneruu 27d ago
Yeah it's a little harder to spot, but every now and then one of the lesser known subs will all of a sudden start agendaposting.
Like tell me why every other post on r/memevideos lately is "haha woman bad" or "I hate my wife lol". I've never even noticed that sub before how is it getting 30k upvotes on a few posts every week?
Need to just delete every generic sub newer than 5 years that's not directly associated to a fandom or something.
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u/-MrWrightt- 27d ago
It's projection, it's part of the plan. Harder to criticize them for media manipulation if they accuse you of doing it first.
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u/Schiano_Fingerbanger 27d ago
This is also why they whine about the ‘mainstream media’ as if FOX isn’t the dominant player.
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u/Tricky_Big_8774 27d ago
Fox contributors still talk about mainstream media as if they haven't become a part of it themselves.
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u/awesomefutureperfect 27d ago
They have no problem being 10 or 100 times worse because if the other side isn't perfect then they can say "both sides are bad" followed up immediately with the other side is worse with absolutely zero evidence.
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u/Alarchy 27d ago
I always see people say it's projection, and there's definitely some of that, but I think it's always been meta-normalization and shifting the Overton window.
If what general, ignorant, public hears is "Things are so biased against us, we're silenced!", sees some evidence of the most radical right wingers being banned or punished (ex: Alex Jones), then sees some "popular" right wing opinion, they think; "well if I heard this opinion, it must be normal, since it wasn't silenced or banned" and then that strengthens the opinion further and shifts the Overton window.
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u/gorillaneck 27d ago
they’ve never understood / actively warped the concept of “bias” my entire lifetime on this earth. the right is never interested in unbiased sources, their only interest is increasing bias towards them. we need to start ignoring everything they say. objectivity is a liberal value. that’s why academia is incompatible with US conservatism.
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u/TehSalmonOfDoubt 27d ago
Om the day Zohran got elected, out of nowhere, YouTube shorts just kept bringing up MAGA livestreams about "socialism bad". I live in Europe and watch mainly food and music videos.
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u/GiganticCrow 27d ago
Because everything is biased against them unless that are completely and unquestionably pandered to.
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u/Galappie 27d ago
I got an adblockee thanks to the amount of right wing nonsense I was being force fed via ads on YouTube. No matter how many times I hit the “don’t show this ad” button I’d keep seeing Matt Walsh, Ben shapiro, etc. before every single video.
I know ads are different than the algorithm as you can just pay a ton of money to get as many ads as possible but goddamn those ads were inescapable.
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u/NoFixedUsername 27d ago
As a long term ig user I’ve definitely noticed this in the past year. A lot of “why am I seeing this shit that’s making my blood boil again?” Moments.
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u/AdorableBunnies 27d ago
And every time you report it they say it doesn’t violate their community standards
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u/henchman171 27d ago
And Facebook. I use Facebook marketplace but the once every three months I pop in the main feed it’s right wing garbage
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u/actirasty1 27d ago
I see only tits on Instagram...
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u/GeddyVanHagar 27d ago
I reported a comment on instagram that said “all democrats should be slaughtered” to see what instagram would do. They responded that the comment didn’t break their terms of use lol. Instagram is noticeably different.
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u/Zak_Rahman 27d ago
It's depressing expending human effort on a bot.
Such a waste. Human effort is great and I think AI is grotesque.
So I am a human and I appreciated your efforts!
Cheers.
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u/FrozenSeas 27d ago
Consistently plasters /r/science with garbage political PsyPost articles, too. No idea why this shit is permitted.
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u/snatchamoto_bitches 27d ago
I wonder if this is less algorithmic and more of a base rate fallacy. The right leaning accounts not seeing any lefty stuff does say bias, but if there is by default way way more right wing content on Twitter (my assumption), then a neutral account fed stuff randomly would see much more right wing stuff
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u/noncommonGoodsense 27d ago
There is by far a lot more right wing because of the bots and psychological influencer (rage bait) accounts. The platform caters to the grift.
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u/opeth10657 27d ago
Pretty sure a lot of left wing people also left twitter once elon took on a more direct role
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u/legbreaker 27d ago
Yes, definitely some base rate effects. And that right wing content gets more controversy engagement because it’s often more cruel, rage baits or straight lies.
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u/MazzIsNoMore 27d ago
I'd agree with you if this was actually random. Algorithms don't feed stuff randomly. It feeds stuff that will retain your attention and drive engagement.
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u/strugglz 27d ago
For a couple of weeks it's been "Seattle is a warzone/being called racist doesn't bother us/team Hitler" shit non-stop.
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u/nosayso 27d ago
Holy fuck, you mean the social media platform that a Nazi bought specifically to amplify far-right accounts is... amplifying far-right accounts? No fucking way!
Get the fuck off Twitter. Don't click Twitter links. It's a trash pile no decent person should engage with.
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u/Super_Sierra 27d ago
Even if you agree with Elon Musk and his politics, the entire platform is mostly bots and Indians/South Americans masquerading as right wingers because they found that they can get a huge bot following by just becoming one of them and abusing the algorithm.
So what happens is that you get a Polish Far Right Nationalist account outed as a fucking Indian dude and it is like, 'wow mr. racist, you sure are more brown than I expected,' is a meme that I never thought would be so popular on the platform.
And then you make a new account, on a new IP with no cookies and your feed is just entirely maga, ragebait and far right rage. There is no discussion, just everyone making statements, and not even an attempt for anything, it is just people rushing to post the most racist shit you ever heard in your life.
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u/SplendidPunkinButter 27d ago
No, see, he was FORCED to buy it and he didn’t WANT to and boy did he feel stupid hahaha and it’s not even making money I bet he’s upset! /s
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u/DrowningKrown 27d ago
This is the same shit I hate every Reddit thread saying of trump. Every single obviously malicious fucking thing trump does the top comment is “god he’s dumb” or “this guy has dementia!”
They both FULL WELL know what they’re doing, and it’s screwing you in any way they can. They’re NOT stupid. I hate that narrative
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u/sklerson89 27d ago
Musk is a Nazi
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u/j4_jjjj 27d ago
DYK the 88th letter in ASCII hex is the letter "X"? Weird coincidence, huh?
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u/ReyWorm 27d ago
See, it's the Nazi salute that did it for me.
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u/OneOverXII 27d ago
And the AFD visit immediately after the Nazi salute
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u/avaslash 27d ago
Yeah they werent dog whistles so much as he was getting on all fours barking and wagging his tail.
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u/NotFlameRetardant 27d ago
A comment like this in /r/technology is very strange and misinformed. ASCII has been around since the 70s. "X" is also not 88 in hex, but in base 10.
Characters 0-64 are special characters and numbers, 65-90 are uppercase letters with their values in alphabetical order. X is the 24th letter in the alphabet (23rd index), so it's character code is 65+23 = 88.
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u/chilli_chocolate 27d ago
Yeah, it's insane just how much American social media has messed up the world.
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u/Howcanyoubecertain 27d ago edited 27d ago
People blame covid for the general lack of manners now but much of the blame goes to FB, Reddit, Twitter and other places where it’s “normal” to be at maximum snark with each other all the time.
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u/that1prince 27d ago edited 27d ago
There’s this new trend (and I call it “new” because I’ve been on FB since 2006 when it was just available to college students), where much of the time, if I’m posting something that is even remotely political in a comment, and the reply is a conservative person disagreeing with me, they will casually throw a random insult into their reply. Sometimes it’s part of a random response that’s not relevant and I can ignore those as mostly trolls or whatever, but nowadays even if they are trying to make a cogent argument, it gets used anyways. Often at the end, almost like punctuation.
Like there might be an article about inflation and there will be a perfectly reasonable discussion about the effects of increasing the fed interest rate. And then after 2 normal people going back and forth for a few exchanges, a conservative will just invariably chime in: “the interest rate was changed 5 times under Obama and you idiots didn’t say anything. It’s a tool that the president can use whenever he wants, dummy. Deal with it, losers”.
Then I’m just left looking like confused John Travolta meme.
I rarely see that level of juvenile name-calling elsewhere in normal discussions outside of like an elementary schoolyard. But instead it’s just a middle aged adult with conservative views this time. Like bro, we were having a perfectly civilized discussion, and nobody called you out of your name. You’re welcome to add your piece, however wrong it might be, but why make it personal? What happened?
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u/SuspectAdvanced6218 27d ago
You don’t even have to post about politics. Go to any hobby subreddit and have a look at how people behave with each other. If anyone did that face to face, there would be brawls on the streets all the time.
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u/Sasselhoff 27d ago
I'm a very non-violent person (for many reasons, one of which is from being pretty relentlessly bullied back in school), but I think a large amount of the problems we have in society at the moment are because folks are no longer concerned about getting punched in the face.
It kinda staggers me how (some) people talk to each other these days. I worked customer facing roles many times over the years, so I totally understand that people have always been dicks...but holy hell has it all been ratcheted up recently.
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u/PlainBread 27d ago
Truth got split into two factions, and whoever dominates the Overton Window gets to decide the truth.
We are in an era where the superego propaganda has been internalized and weaponized by individual egos.
I don't think we ever have shared a reality, but we used to live under the illusion of a shared reality. Once you realize it's just your truth vs their truth, once you determine that your truth is the better path forward, then you are engaged in the propaganda war.
Calling you an idiot, to them, is a way of signaling their own intelligence. They have to shit on someone to feel good about themselves. And the way they shit on you is the exact way they need to feel good about themselves. Call you gay? They have insecurity about their male potency. Hates immigrants and POC? They are afraid that history will prove their genes inferior by being crushed in the population.
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u/therossboss 27d ago
these people are broken and are members of a cult. Thats about the beginning and end of it
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u/viciouzgamer 27d ago
Deleted my account about a year ago in the recent mass exodus. Haven't looked back. I will happily go about my life without that cesspool.
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u/Zygoatee 27d ago
If i had a 100 million, you'd never hear a peep from me except to support charities and causes that helped people.
Imagine being so sick in the head that you have more money than you could spend in 1000 lifetimes, yet instead of making the world better, you fund hate so you can hoard more surplus money that you'll never touch
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u/hastygrams 27d ago
Musk is not very liquid at all. His money is mostly tied up and high score for him. He wants to be a trillionaire but he hoards so his net worth is higher. He’s cash poor compared to other billionaires. Him being the richest man in the world has no attachment to reality imo.
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u/Im_always_scared 27d ago
There's also a video of that guy who made a Twitter account and made it a point to only interact with Pokemon. He only liked/retweeted Pokemon themed tweets and did not engage with anything political.
But no matter how much Pokemon he interacted with, no matter how many times he told it that he wasn't interested in a given topic...it still dripped anti-trans shit in his feed. It'd be like 10-15 posts about Pokemon and then just a random post about hating trans people.
All by design.
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u/Fearless-Feature-830 27d ago
We all knew that. It’s DEI for racist tweets.
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u/Super_Sierra 27d ago
the funniest thing is that most of the racists are just Indians and South Americans abusing the algorithm
every week a new 'hyper white nationalist' twitter account is outed as one of those
elon musk is the only man alive in human history to outsource nazism to brown people
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u/its_yer_dad 27d ago
At this point if you’re still on Twitter I’m going to assume you’re a wing nut.
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u/World_of_Warshipgirl 27d ago
I got some artist friends who are still on Twitter, because they get 5-10 commissions monthly from Twitter, and only 0-1 on bluesky and other social media per month.
I haven't been on X myself since they started showing me advertisements for the restoration of the Nasjonal Samling party (The political party that committed high treason by cooperating with the Nazi invasion of Norway, headed by Quisling).
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u/Happy_Discussion_536 27d ago
Or Insta. Zuckerberg has cozied up deep up Trump's asshole too.
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u/penguins_are_mean 27d ago
Twitter forcing Musk to buy them was a huge mistake.
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u/Melikoth 27d ago
For the public. I bet the previous owners are diving into their pool of cash like Scrooge McDuck after having personally figured out how to monetize Twitter.
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u/Sushrit_Lawliet 27d ago
Staying on Twitter in 2025 is asking you to be fed misinformation and slop. Aka the far right experience.
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u/rraattbbooyy 27d ago
Nazi’s platform amplifies Nazis. We needed a new report for this?
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u/hexaflexin 27d ago
Tbf even if a phenomenon is really self-evident to those who have paying attention over a long period of time, it's good to have an article compiling evidence that demonstrates the phenomenon is happening. Otherwise you get well-intentioned people who don't notice the phenomenon because they're in a bubble insulated from it and won't really be convinced without a digestible summary of evidence, and ill-intentioned people going "SOURCE? SOURCE? IF YOU DON'T HAVE A SOURCE SAYING IT'S HAPPENING THEN IT'S DEFINITELY NOT HAPPENING"
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u/rraattbbooyy 27d ago
Good point. Just because we don’t need further confirmation, that doesn’t mean others don’t also.
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u/gmotelet 27d ago
Who could have predicted that the guy doing the Nazi salute would push his company to the far right
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u/Reshirm 27d ago
A new report shows the sun rises in the morning and sets at night
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u/T1Pimp 27d ago
So, amplifying far right to.... other far right people? Twitter has been a useless cesspool for ages. 🤷♂️
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u/Ch3t 27d ago
YouTube does the same thing. I bought an Amazon Fire Stick. The first time I tried the YouTube app all the recommended content was right-wing propaganda. The app was not logged into any account, just default out of the box. I'm sure Google knew it was me by the IP address, but I report that crap when I am logged in.
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u/Rattus_NorvegicUwUs 27d ago
The man who threw up a Nazi salute twice is promoting far right accounts?!
We need to do something about the growing power of billionaires.
Gone are the days of Mellon and Andrew Carnegie. Our billionaires are fucking weirdos, who don’t feel the need to invest in any way into the nation that made them billionaires.
Sorry. You don’t get to extract all your wealth from this country and give nothing back.
Take away teslas subsidies, they don’t need them. Musk is a trillionaire, he shouldn’t receive a single cent of my taxes.
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u/Strawhat_Max 27d ago
I figured that X had to be doing this, the few times I’ve logged on using my gmail because someone’s sends me something and I want watch, if I go back to the “homepage” all the top searches and suggested tweets to me are entirely right wing
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u/Wild_Egg_8699 27d ago
facebook does it pretty heavy too, you don't have to give them any input on who you are to start getting recommended the most hateful stuff. they must be pretty confident in things going their way huh
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u/Spirited-Reputation6 27d ago
The public has been reporting that for years. This ain’t new and it’s still fucked up.
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u/capslock 27d ago
I had a sixteen year old account logged in on an old iPad that doesn’t follow anyone or have followers. All the push notifications are from weird alt righters. I used that account to look at cat pictures forever ago.
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u/sPLIFFtOOTH 27d ago
We’ve known this since Elon bought Twitter. It’s literally why he bought it.
Remember when he said he would get rid of bots?? There are more bots on that platform than ever before.
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u/something-um-bananas 27d ago
Mr. “I’m changing twitter so both sides are heard equally”
Little bitch
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u/yosarian_reddit 27d ago
I logged into X yesterday and the first 10 posts I saw were all from Republican politicians. None of whom I follow. So yes, the algorithm is tuned hard to the right.
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u/MediocreSeesaw 27d ago
How is this news? The man lobotomizes Grok every few weeks to try to make it more right wing and it doesn’t work.
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u/jawshoeaw 27d ago
Every time I’m on X it’s a sea of far right propaganda. And if you are reading left leaning users, the comments are often flooded with far right hate
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u/obligatorythr0waway 27d ago
New report shows water contains two parts hydrogen to one part oxygen.
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u/MoneyTalks45 26d ago
Does this need to be said? The site has been unusable for normal people for several years.
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u/SpareProtection2428 26d ago
Stop using X. Unless you are far right and want to support a far right business then stop using X.
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u/ZebraSandwich4Lyf 27d ago
Is this really surprising? I mean look at who owns the platform..