Weirdmusic@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•Hurricane Milton Spurs Misinformation, Meteorologist Death Threats
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4 days agoHow easy would it be for a foreign power to use inexpensive bot nets to amplify misinformation on a truly industrial scale on what are, essentially, unregulated social media platforms? Turns out the results are in and (a) it’s very easy and (b) it’s incredibly effective at sowing distrust and fear.
It’s time to regulate social media folks. The “free speech” excuse has been proven demonstrably false by Musk, Zuckerberg et al.
That would be the Republican politicians who were bought by Boeing and then cut the funding to the FAA