• pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    I’m pretty sure there are court cases against these companies that hired them, there are also more interviews of Russians on video saying this stuff. You should look into that.

    I would recommend looking at the years 2016 through 2019 , plus Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, and other companies like that. Europe recently talked about going after a company doing this stuff.

    Here’s a good portion of my bookmark vault: https://sh.itjust.works/post/33277983

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      2 days ago

      What pisses me off is a lot of times these influence agents are not hard to spot but if they are with a powerful group they get a pass, and if you argue with them they will manipulate the rules or have your name sent to social media and they will ban you or violate you I should say for unrelated reasons. Especially about a certain country connected to our foreign policy but not just that and it’s going to get worse.

      Not only do they allow fake accounts to violate their own rules and manipulate us, but they dishonestly violate people that have not broken rules at the behest of those powerful interests. The government and billionaires have their hooks well into social media, it is doomed, and there is no way to achieve anything big through it with it being fucked as so.