Twitter obviously has always had huge downsides, but if you heavily curated your feed, it was sometimes ok. There were socialist/communist circles that had decent discourse.
Recently (last few months), I’ve noticed almost EVERY thread is infested with combative libs.
I also see literal pro-Nazi/fascist threads. I’m talking about praising Hitler and calling for ethnic cleansing. They never seem to get taken down and are very active (often with little resistance).
These threads are not something I’ve dug for either. They are easy to stumble upon.
This is almost exactly what happened to Reddit, which is pretty much worthless now. I haven’t logged on in weeks.
I need to research more, but I know most social media companies have been infiltrated by ‘former’ US security stooges from the CIA etc.
I know anything remotely left wing gets suppressed by the algorithms, but I’m pretty convinced they are pushing hard right content.
Hard to say. There was a visible push last year by the Biden admin under the guise of “combatting disinformation” with the pretext of covid vaccine misinformation/conspiracy and the ever useful “Russian troll farm” specter used to force social media companies further under the imperialist thumb. I think Zuckerberg actually resisted a little and was hauled in front of congress and pilloried before giving in. As part of this drive I believe the less mentioned aspect was putting in all these new (as opposed to the limited, high ranking but not directly curating) info-warfare people. I think that plus a ramping up of perhaps western bots, forced changes to the algorithms to force western propaganda and suppress other views, etc may be finally all converging to create this situation.
In the mouth and especially in the law of westoid it always means “increase propaganda efforts”