Twitter announced this week that it had shut down 7,000 QAnon-related accounts and that with time, it would reduce the visibility of a total 150,000 in an attempt to quash the adherents’ cyber attacks and promulgation of misinformation.
No . Not as they currently exist - no.
All companies with a social media component can choose to control the content or not. If they choose not to, it’s because of money. Only when their income sources start to complain do they take notice.
”Chrissy Teigen claimed to have blocked a million people last week after becoming the target of a QAnon swarm.”
A million Russian bots are not the same as a million “people”.
And herein lies the real problem.
Yes, the inverse Turing Test. Identifying if a QAnoner is not a bot…
Kayleigh What’shernanny showing goon squad porn to reporters at presser.
Alexander Nazaryan
@alexnazaryan
This is a White House press briefing.
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And the DC Press amplifies the propaganda.
But they tain’t showin’ this:
Just remember that stake Russians have in Facebook and you’ll know why Marky Mark continues to push the Q bullshit on Facebook.
Bots should be eliminated from the social media platforms; any automated posting should be required to show a connection to a real person or entity, and even then it should be limited. Accounts that are shown to be bots should be deleted instantly; accounts that show bot-like behavior should be required to prove that they are real people posting; maybe not actual identities (some whistleblowers are posting through Twitter), but just an actual contact person who can be confirmed as real.
Social media companies should be vetting the truth of posts; it may take reporting of a false post, but once reported there should be an evaluation and then links to show the truth behind the post (which includes confirming them if accurate). The social media companies have become our version of the news, and the things linked through them should be confirmed as accurate.
Of course, none of this will happen…it would cost money, and require effort to confirm information and delete accounts that generate dollars. It’s the exact opposite of how these companies make money for their owners and stockholders, so they won’t change without legal intervention. Something needs to happen though, they really are key to the poisoning of our democracy at this point.
The problem with companies finally going after QAnon is the trollspiracy has started to move on. “Epstein” conspiracies are already taking QAnon over but it’s mostly the same bullshit. ‘[Insert your hated politician here] was part of his pedophile ring and anyone even tangibly related to anything having to do with Epstein that dies was murdered by said hated politician.
The problem is that there is now a massive cohort of people willing to believe any conspiracy theory that conforms to their Trump-loving biases. I mean, what is Facebook going to do about people saying that Tom Hanks is a pedophile (which is what you get the moment anyone mentions Hanks’ advocacy for mask wearing and social distancing) or the Wayfair child sex trafficking theory (if you don’t know about that one, don’t ask…)
Thanks to Trump, there is no theory too crazy to be embraced by his adherents.
This is not good stuff. Who gets to decide what’s a conspiracy theory and therefore can’t be heard?
If I post that a candidate for president has the backing of the Russian government and they’re blackmailing him to get him to do their bidding… Just for example
Is anyone surprised? The term “goon squads” is appropriate. Stuff “paramilitary” and US Agents bullshit.
Russel L. Honore’
@ltgrusselhonore
See the #ZTI patch on this
police in #PortlandProtests ZTI is a private company if true wearing Military Uniforms. W authorities to shoot and arrest citizens as stated by
. Stop The Bullshit . Media do your job .
9:13 AM · Jul 24, 2020·
So we’re not allowed to ask legitimate questions about how a prison that hadn’t had a successful suicide in over two decades has a string of things happen one night that lets Epstein have six hours of alone time to do so and then they refuse to release the video evidence that would prove nobody could have entered his cell because there was nobody in the hallway (and the camera on his cell mysteriously wasn’t working…)?
You cut one head off of the Qbots and another one pops up like this guy!
Trash-talking QAnon conspiracy theorist Tommy Gelati has a long list of celebrities he thinks belong in prison—or who might secretly be there already.
But what’s less clear to his audience is that Gelati himself served nearly two years in a federal prison after engineering a sensational bank robbery with a crew dubbed the “College Boy Robbers.” Now, his online rise highlights how anyone can reinvent themselves and find success in an era where conspiracy theories run rampant.
Why is that ass not blocked on every bit of social media? Answer–Sacha Baron Cohen was right when he said that the Silicon Six will do anything for money!
“Can I haz cheezeberder and NYT Op-Ed column now?!”
You know this guy reads QAnon like the Bible.
“Conspiracy theorizing is a practice that’s been going on for centuries — you can’t just ban it.”
social media companies are likely wary of the conspiracy theory’s spread, is that some are certain to take it seriously.
I’m pretty sure SCOTUS already established that shouting ‘fire’ in a crowded theater is not protected speech under the First Amendment.
They are who we think they are. Blackwater-types on the streets of the U.S. What could possibly go wrong?
Everything’s a conspiracy theory until it’s proven or disproven.
The NSA patently lied to everyone, including in testimony in front of Congress, about spying on Americans’ communications.
Until Snowden provided the proof.
But the “conspiracy theorists” had been discussing this online for years before, including little details popping up here and there that added to it.
So you’d support just shutting down anyone asking the hard questions that ultimately led to the exposure of the NSA committing crimes?
Can we stop pretending that Facebook gives one iota of shit about the toxic content on its platform?
It’s the business model. Period.
Depends, that would be quite hinged.
