If they were just talking about Reddit, I’d assume something dodgy was going on connected with the IPO. But Quora is supposedly back from the dead too… Am I missing something glaringly obvious here?
If they were just talking about Reddit, I’d assume something dodgy was going on connected with the IPO. But Quora is supposedly back from the dead too… Am I missing something glaringly obvious here?
From the Washington Post piece:
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The overwhelmingly more significant threat is that US corporate social media are integrated with the propaganda machinery of the US government and the capitalist class. The purpose of things like Alliance for Securing Democracy’s Hamilton 68 and the Disinformation Governance Board is not to protect us from foreign influence but for the “intelligence community” to inject its own influence.
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They have their eye on the fediverse now as well: Atlantic Council » Collective Security in a Federated World
This is all an extension of how traditional corporate media works, which has been understood for decades:
A five minute primer: Noam Chomsky - The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine
Liberals will cry for impossibly indisputable evidence then go silent when you actually manage to provide it.
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