politics

I guess what I'm saying is we should get the hell rid of it all so eventually public opinion won't be swayed by cheap foreign labor, bots, and people who just want to burn it all down.

I've blocked so many accounts on here that are clearly not Americans just straight up trying to incite shit in US news / politics communities. I don't know what's worse: the number of upvotes those get or how transparent they are.

That requires a population that is educated and can critically read and analyze media. Don't think any country in the world has that.

If only we could go back to the halcyon days of twenty years ago, when people were not influenced by talkshow hosts, athletes hawking household goods, and tabloids breathlessly reporting on actors and socialites.

I mean… 20 years ago when we only had Xanga, MySpace, Friendster, LiveJournal, LinkedIn, and many others. Even Facebook is 21 years old now… though it didn’t become available for everyone for a couple years after that.

This will 100% happen

And with greater VPNs

Probably already are

It wasn't just based on IP from what I understand, but also what country's app store you used.

Well, lots of tankies, "centrists", and of course nearly all Republicans seem to think that concerns about Russia going back to 2016's election are a "hoax".

I don't know if they could even begin to articulate what they think that word means in the context of their claims. But they sure are butthurt about it.

I could be wrong here, but unless you're actively trying to hide something pretty serious, I'd be surprised if people use a VPN and set it to a country like Nigeria or Bangladesh if you're from NA.

Maybe Canada if you're from the USA, likely other states, or maybe somewhere in the EU if you think their data protection laws will be better for you.

But Nigeria? Who fuck sets their VPN there?

The hired trolls are only one part of the problem. The other problem -- perhaps the bigger problem -- is that running scam / spam accounts is a legitimate occupation for people living in near-poverty. They need to put food on the table, and if they can do so by posting MAGA bullshit to get the advertising clicks, of course they'll keep on doing that.

This is a good example of why everyone should be working to improve the living situations of everyone else in the world, and not just in their own country. It's not like most people enjoy running scams, but if that pays the bills, fuck it, let the rich Americans sort it out.

A compassionate genius?

Idk he has kinda proven himself to be an incompetent nazi on many different occasions

Maybe he just weighed the ups/downs for the moment. He didn't have the bot farms up trying to convince people to vote for Trump and sway public opinion anymore maybe. Maybe he made the call that exposing accounts and introducing the idea he can expose them a threat to any political upstarts wanting to take the next monarchy grasp. He can expose the accounts he wants, while spending less money having to combat any political opposition that may want to run similar campaign tactics that they used.

There are members who wanted to go further into "America first" bologna, maybe he realized that won't be beneficial for him long term finally

Sounds cool, until the fascists take over the government...

To hear fElon tell it, that's what he thought Twitter was before, and what he aimed for Xitter to uphold...

LOL. Sorry, hard to type that w/o laughing.

Needs to be Shitter, LLC based in USSR.

That’s an extra cost, until the oopsiedaisy of revealing their location the cost was superfluous. The new accounts will use them.

may be survivorship bias, the ones that didn't use it got caught