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OliverQ

(3,363 posts) Mon Oct 29, 2018, 12:18 PM Oct 2018

Bots and Trolls are out in massive force.

Twitter is absolutely insane. Jim Acosta posted on twitter that he's not the enemy of the people, and he just got railroaded by obviously fake accounts saying yes he is, he lies about Trump and spreads propaganda and the media must be stopped.

Scary how powerful social media is at spreading propaganda.

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Bots and Trolls are out in massive force. (Original Post) OliverQ Oct 2018 OP

One of the reasons 2naSalit Oct 2018 #1

My facebook has gotten bad again too Johonny Oct 2018 #2

2naSalit

(86,323 posts)

1. One of the reasons

Reply to OliverQ (Original post)

Mon Oct 29, 2018, 12:27 PM

Oct 2018

I won't sign up for any of that. I have DU for commentary and news and I have email for other stuff. Beyond that, I don't need to broadcast my private life in the intertubes.

I realize he is in the media world and social media is part of it but I think that it might be good if people started treating it like MySpace and let it die by the side of the Internet highway.

Johonny

(20,818 posts)

2. My facebook has gotten bad again too

Reply to OliverQ (Original post)

Mon Oct 29, 2018, 12:34 PM

Oct 2018

Suddenly this weekend I was spammed with GOP commercials on there.

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