Reason being ‘blatant disinformation’, obviously. What’s even funnier is it was my response to a lib accussing a comrade of being a russian bot.
Remember how that sub was couped?
Critical support for Chapo.chat for hosting the deposed official of pres race memes @AlarmedScholar
You’re a Russian bot trust me I’m an expert on internet дезинформация.
Wasn’t that sub originally controlled by Sanders fans but got literally couped by the admins and handed over to some Biden bros?
And the for a while after the coup, the comment section was defaulted to sort by controversial, meaning you’d see incredibly lib comments at the top of every section.
Someone correct me if I’m wrong, wasn’t that during the peak of the Tara Reade story breaking? Or after?
During.
The mods also auto removed posts and comments that contained the phrase “rape apologia” or “rape apologists” because so many leftist were (correctly) pointing out the way the #VoteBlue crowd were flipping on Me too for Biden.
Thanks for confirming that. PCM was basically the only sub that could get “Joe Biden is a rapist” to hit r/all so I wasn’t terribly surprised they did that
Yeah, I actually found it through /all, not through Chapo. And then almost immediately after Bernie suspended his campaign, boom. Goodbye old mods, hello new mods handpicked by admins in a post where at least a few CTH users requests to be mods were removed (myself included).
Huh, weird that we got a bunch of users from /r/neoliberal flooding in, and mods who were friendly to them, and a bunch of new rules specifically designed to push that content to the top…
I eventually gave up on that sub.
I did go back recently, and I noticed that everyone who had MDelegate flair still were automatically switched to Kamala Harris flair. Which I assume is another troll by the mods who weren’t around to earn MDelegates in the first place.
Russia gate is real tho… It was an attempt to convince liberals that the election has be compromised by a foreign power and it worked. All those fb ads were made to get caught
The phenomenon of social media manipulation is 100% real. The reduction of all racism and injustice in the US to social media manipulation, and the farther reduction of that manipulation to Russia is where liberals really jumped the shark. This is the kind of shit the US has probably been doing for decades, but all of a sudden when it was used domestically everyone lost their minds.
As we witnessed on this very site, it only takes a single person, or a handful of people to register hundreds of accounts and automate them to amplify bullshit. Social media influence campaigns are trivial. Post your shit, sockpuppet some flimsy strawman opposition, own them, then bot likes and upvotes. Anyone with the resources of a modest political campaign can do this shit, and the Republicans don’t need the fucking Spetsnaz to drown social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit in reactionary garbage.
If the libs stopped at “Damn, perceptions on social media are extremely easy to manipulate,” this meltdown would have been a lot more productive, but instead they embarked on one of the most absurd witch hunts of a generation.
It’s because Americans need media literacy but that would run counter to the needs of neoliberalism.
