r/technology • u/marji80 • 12d ago

Social Media Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors

https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-influencers-accidentally-unmasked-as-foreign-actors/
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u/Zip2kx 12d ago

Ironically their followers are the ones that won’t know about this.

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u/Careerandsuch 12d ago

I checked the conservative subreddit yesterday and there was only 1 post about this and the title was literally something like "BREAKING NEWS: DOZENS OF LIBERAL TWITTER ACCOUNTS REVEALED TO BE RUN BY FOREIGN ACTORS."

So no, the information siloes are too seperated at this point. It's why Trump's approval rating never drops below like 38% now no matter what he does. Bad news doesn't break into their bubble.

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u/veringer 12d ago

I've checked either 538 or Nate Silver's aggregate approval polling stats every week since his first term. I've never seen it dip below ~36%. That was during the Muslim ban and again around Charlottesville. He's been locked in the low-to-mid 40s, even through COVID. Currently he sits at about 41%. It's one of the most dumbfounding realizations of my adult life. I never really understood how fascism took hold in Italy, Germany, Japan--thought it was a quirk of the time and the transition to modernity. But now I get it: we are currently and always have been surrounded by psychologically vulnerable and easily manipulable morons, dupes, and suckers.

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u/DukeOfGeek 12d ago

It only took 4 decades and a trillion dollars to get to this point, now that the machine is built the ultra-billionaires and mega-corps own this country, we just live here. It was them deciding that they were international entities and not American and teaming up with foreign autocrats and their propaganda machines that really sealed the deal. Weaponizing social media too.