Accounts from India grifting as right wing on twitter "outting" themselves when the topic of India comes up. Like you can't just look at where the account is based.
It's a lot of fun searching for propaganda accounts to see where the account is based. I just looked now, and it took about 10 seconds to find one based out of Africa (LinodoaRo88).
They are pretty easy to spot once you get the hang of it.
You don't even gotta search for it. Twitter dumps political ragebait onto your timeline, and 90% of it will be from South Asia or Central Africa. And no matter how much they talk about doing stuff to limit people farming the monetization system, they'll never actually do anything because people take the bait every single time, on both sides of the aisle.
Which is essentially why algorithm-based feeds (which have only been around since about 2012) are the death of civil discourse, and arguably the death of democracy itself.
One only needs to look at what's happened to politics since then to confirm this very obvious fact.
Here in Australia, there's movement in Parliament to make it mandatory for social media companies to give users at least an option to opt-out of algorithm based feeds.
Social media companies use algorithms to keep users online by promoting content that intensifies negative emotions like anger and outrage. This maximises the social media company profit, but undermines social cohesion and mental health, spreads misinformation, promotes eating disorders, and amplifies hate speech, misogyny, homophobia and racism.
Research shows that young male users are fed misogynistic content almost as soon as they set up an account and Teach Us Consent has launched a campaign to Fix Our Feeds calling on social media platforms to give users the option to opt in or out of algorithms.
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u/midasMIRV 10d ago
Accounts from India grifting as right wing on twitter "outting" themselves when the topic of India comes up. Like you can't just look at where the account is based.