[joeythedolphin]

Entertainment is one piece, but the control of information and narrative is far more critical. Think election victory or losses, capital city riots, business boycots, and opinions towards LGBTQ+ etc. I've always believed flesh and blood died in wars but the war was really over thinking. In today's insular, isolated, community-deprived world, your social media (for many people at least) is their only way to interact with or understand the world at all.

[michaelt]

Are these moderators powerful, shady media moguls like Rupert Murdoch?

Or are they naive chumps with too much time on their hands, tricked into doing free labour for a big corporation that actively disdains them?

I always thought the people manipulating opinion on social media were using bot accounts, rather than moderator positions.