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by usepgp 2811 days ago
The problem isn't that people are acting anonymously, the problem is that individuals and organizations are acting to impersonate the non-anonymous.

follower counts only impact people because of the assumption that each follower is a _real_ person, which is a direct effect of the deanonymization we see today by social networks.

propaganda has significantly more impact when it is perceived to come from "just another normal person" rather than an anonymous bot.

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> propaganda has significantly more impact when it is perceived to come from "just another normal person" rather than an anonymous bot.

Yes. Exactly.