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Comment by rapnie

8 hours ago

> At the same time, the US techno-fascists both have an outsized influence on our lives and it's much harder to find their voices in other places

Big Tech social media are perfect platforms to drive people and society apart. Yesterday suddenly Youtube passed a vid [0] through the algorithmic filter bubble they feed me, showing Marco Rubio (or a deepfake version?) spew divisive misinfo about Macron and France. Most telling that none of the comments had a critical word on Rubio. Only Rubio fan comments behing highly critical of Europe and the EU.

Big Tech social media is pure poison to healthy society in how it insidiously spreads misinformation and propaganda to targeted audiences.

[0] No URL. I don't want to give this clicks, but the shorts vid ID is pgvVw5bZWiA

By divisive you mean lies and venon? Maybe we should stop using euphemisms.

  • Yes, lies and venom. With 'divisive' I was also thinking of the new US national security policy that calls for driving the EU apart into individual vasal states, and Rubio doing that dirty work in the vid, shielded by algorithms.