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Hit em with that "Taiwan number 1" to send em back to the shadow realm

I can’t prove it, but my hunch is a lot of the obnoxious people I argue with online, who seem unable to see reason or resist devolving to insults and twisting my words, are actually foreign operatives tasked with depleting American morale

It's called tik tok isn't it?

West Taiwan you mean?

Anyone know if harassing US politicians and businesses is a paid gig?

Fuck the CCP, fuck and Chinese citizen participating in this, fuck your mudda, fuck your whole ancesta, like a someboody fuck you bic, Taiwan numba wun

I've been on reddit for over a decade. There were clear signs of Russian trolls on reddit during the 2016 election. What I witnessed was that people in general were very easily deceived.

No longer on reddit so i cant tell of they are there, but the Chinese spam and disinformation bots/accounts are quite active on Twitter(X). I follow dozens of Chinese dissidents on Twitter and each time they tweet something, there are 5-10 bots tweeting sexual contents. It's ridiculous.

Victims face a barrage of tens of thousands of social media posts that call them traitors, dogs, and racist and homophobic slurs. They say it’s all part of an effort to drive them into a state of constant fear and paranoia.

I don't think I've heard/read somebody getting called a "dog" much before (unless they're referring to the other name somebody might use "b****"), isn't that more a foreign and/or rural insult? I don't remember ever getting hit with any of these myself, so maybe it stings more in that context, but that list of insults is almost comical and reads like words somebody would say that didn't speak English as their primary language.

I mean, just look at the comments section on X or Instagram and you'll see this playing out in real time.

Freedom of speech should not extend to foreign adversaries. Give me the ability to geoblock social media just like I can with my router at home. Accurately label any domestic sources that are relaying this disinformation as well so I can block them too.

What? Shocked! Shocked I am to find out the second you go after the CCP an army of trolls shows up!

Damn, all this time Hexbear was actually getting paid?

From the article...

But Linvill of Clemson University argues that the network uses a unique strategy of “flooding” conversations with so many comments that posts from genuine users receive less attention.

“They are operating thousands of accounts at a time on a given platform, often to drown out conversations, just with sheer volume of messaging,” Linvill said. “When we think of disinformation, we often think of pushing ideas on users and making ideas more salient, whereas what China is doing is the opposite. They are trying to remove conversations from social media.”

This is what's always concerned me, more than anything else.

If you can't shape the narrative, you might as well destroy the environment any other narrative that would come from it. An anti-control, basically.

As an analogy, a band at a party that plays it's music so loud that no one can hear each other to be able to talk to each other.

If we don't get these bots/shills under control then meaningful conversation will never happen again in any large scale, and any chance for peace at a species level goes with it.

The center will not hold.

Pub G

Get the fuck off social media, people!! Don't you get it. For this and so many other reasons

Good thing this instance isn’t federated with lemmygrad.ml & hexbear.net, protecting everyone from