| What's kinda creepy in the Tunisian situation, is the amount of false information being spread on social media, especially Facebook. For example, there are several posts of a screenshot of an aljazeera post, next to a not fully loaded screenshot of Blinken's twitter claiming that aljazeera mistranslated the tweet. The narrative they are trying to push is that aljazeera is biased and therefore the president was justified in ordering its office raided. Had the tweet's page been allowed to fully load, it would have shown that Blinken's tweet was part of a thread where the second tweet matches what Aljazeera said. src: https://old.reddit.com/r/Tunisia/comments/out08w/influencers... Even creepier, I saw that one of my acquaintances had shared one such post. I commented to inform them of the situation and linking the official tweet thread. My comment got removed for "spam" (I only posted exactly one comment, once) and there was no option to appeal the removal. I contacted her through private channels and she claims she didn't even see the comment. (I presume the automated systems saw that tweet's link was being posted a lot??) So not only is the false information kept up but attempts
to correct it through discussion are automatically removed. |
That is very common everywhere, including in the US. Think about QAnon and other conspiracy theories.