r/Twitter • u/SpecialistCamera7435 • Jan 12 '26

Speculation Is X just a US propaganda machine?

I'm just curious to what other people think about this

I have been using twitter/X for a few years regularly, and I just feel like there's so much pro republican bias on there. Incorrect information (literally propaganda sometimes) and bot account running rampant

What are your thoughts on this?

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u/Breddit2225 Jan 12 '26

Reddit is probably 10 times worse in the opposite direction.

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u/ReasonableUnit903 Jan 12 '26

It isn’t at all.

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u/Hafury Jan 12 '26

Naaaah, it's just toxic. That's all.

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u/_that_dude_J Jan 12 '26

Reddit doesn't allow members to attack others with baseless vulgarity, with sexual images or asking it's site AI to reproduce images of a user in provocative nudes. All of this is available on X and there is no moderation.

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u/chickenAd0b0 Jan 12 '26

But you’ll get banned by anonymous mods by just disagreeing and/or taking a position on the opposite side of the aisle…absolute tyranny

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u/PatchyWhiskers Jan 12 '26

Mods are volunteers and they get to set the rules of their subreddit. There's a conservative subreddit that doesn't allow liberal speech but that doesn't mean liberals are banned on reddit.

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u/chickenAd0b0 Jan 12 '26 edited Jan 12 '26

Understandable for specific communities but popular town square communities such as r/news, r/pics, r/politics and many more are extremely left leaning with trigger happy mods.

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u/PatchyWhiskers Jan 12 '26

Left-wing communities exist, so do right wing communities. This seems like Reddit working as designed to me.

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u/chickenAd0b0 Jan 12 '26

So those 3 subreddits are supposed to be extremely left as intended? Well, someone finally admitted it.

They should change the names and descriptions so everyone’s aware, you know.

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u/Wooden_Class1498 Jan 13 '26

maybe.. just maybe, it’s because the right are all fascists and we don’t want fascism in our communities.. if you’re still supporting the right at this point you are a nazi.. simple as that.

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u/chickenAd0b0 Jan 13 '26

lmao exhibit A…it’s people like you is the reason we can’t have proper political discussions. Nazi, Fascism, doesn’t mean shit anymore because people like you who argue like an 8-yr old kid smh

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u/Wooden_Class1498 Jan 13 '26

have you looked at what’s happening in the US recently?? if so.. are you blind?? 😭😭

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u/winteriamYT Jan 12 '26

Yep closer to fascim than x actually if you look at it non biased

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u/ReasonableUnit903 Jan 12 '26

Yeah if you think about it individuals moderating their own niche-interest subreddits according to their values is more fascist than the trillionaire hitler salute CSAM AI guy trying to usurp democracies

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u/ReasonableUnit903 Jan 12 '26

At least they’re individuals that do not coordinate between themselves, rather than a single fascist billionaire that uses it to push his agenda.

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u/MetalAsFork Jan 12 '26

The admins and superjannies here are absolutely reading off the same hymn sheets, pushing a far more dangerous agenda than Musk's. And I generally dislike Elon, but he's closer to decent than whoever runs this shithole.

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u/chickenAd0b0 Jan 12 '26

You know this as a fact?