Aaron Sorkin revealed he's trying to write a movie about the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6 that's a sequel of-sorts to 'The Social Network.'
  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
    31·
    2 months ago

    Facebook, but also and really actually reddit.

    thedonald was a pipeline for converting disenfranchised white males into white nationalists and was super effective.

    • phoneymouse@lemmy.world
      10·
      2 months ago

      I’d blame Facebook more than Reddit, but really a lot of the blame lies with 8chan(kun) and the Qanon BS. Of course, this Q bs festered and spread on Facebook.

      And, of course, at the time Twitter was Trump’s main bull horn, so that was a major driver as well.

      By the time Jan 6 happened, TheDonald was long gone from Reddit.

      • steakmeoutt@sh.itjust.works
        5·
        2 months ago

        The_Donald was banned but its community of festering pustules was not at all gone from Reddit- they are all still there and some even here.

      • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
        21·
        2 months ago

        I’m not discounting those locations 💯, but the MAGA cult movement 100% had it’s origins on Reddit in a turf war between progressives and the alt right. I was there. I watched the entire thing happen, how it folded, when the bots appeared, and on and on.