[ratedgene]

TikTok is rife with russian sock puppet accounts run by trolls that try and persuade people. Look at any of the political posts and then check out the accounts posting pro-red and anti-blue sentiments. There is a clear pattern to their accounts.

[spacephysics]

We have to be careful, it cuts the other way too.

Part of the propaganda is also showing extreme left content AND extreme right. The goal is not pushing left or right, the goal is divisiveness.

[bamboozled]

We have to be careful that once authoritarian rule is established globally we won't really be able to get out of it. Right now, using social media to make that happen seems to be extremely effective and because democracies believe in the idea of "free speech at all costs" we really have nothing to stop this.

The answer was probably better education which needed to start 20 years ago in order to counter this but we didn't do it and now we really have no answers but to elect every puppet they push.

[dylan604]

That's true to an extent, but the trend is definitely leaning towards one side more than the other. I'm pretty sure that's just because of where the traction leads the algos to push the bots. Is one side more susceptible than the other is a question for a different thread, but I don't know how to attempt to learn the answer without fanning the flames of either side.

[sabbaticaldev]

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