• mecfs@lemmy.worldOP
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    5 months ago

    The internet isn’t bad itself.

    It’s the fact that bad actors (rich companies, power hungry people, and especially authoritarian states) can hire millions of people and create millions of bots to intentionally spread their narratives on social media. This is immoral, so good actors don’t do it.

    No one talks about the problem or acknowledges it. Social Media needs regulation to prevent this, or it will be our undoing.

    • Tehdastehdas@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      We kinda can blame the internet for letting a bot present itself as a human. If secure ID was in the infrastructure, better content. If all value production were rewarded with money and value destruction taxed, even better.