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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]AP and BBC

X is a total $hit show of bots, trolls, and disinformation.[b] Americans have proven they are not smart enough to sort through it for real news. [/b] Plus, no one should be supporting Musk. Get off X. [/quote]
Sounds.... authoritarian. 
Democracy is dangerous in that regard, as it depends on an intelligent populace. So are you against democracy?[/quote]

Sounds…like an observation and a fact.  They just put a twice impeached criminal in office who willingly delivered a Cold War victory to an actual authoritarian.   [/quote]

Playing devil's advocate, I have no side here, just curious. What do you propose then?

You say the public is too dumb to decide for themselves, so then elections are off the table. What form of government would you propose, or would you scrap all forms of government and try a peaceful anarchy situation?[/quote]

What an illogical leap.

I propose that people not spend time on sites like X that incorrectly equate moderation with censorship, that they educate themselves about the IRA and others like it, that they realize they need to [b]follow the rule “don’t believe everything you read on the internet”, and that they be responsible adults about the media they consume, understanding that the internet is full of absolute BS[/b], and even people who study propaganda and disinformation sometimes get fooled - that’s how careful you have to be.

Read Indivisible Rulers, Network Propaganda, Broken Code or watch The Social Dilemma,  The Great Hack, The Anti-Social Network, Q Into the Storm or whatever- there are tons of books, documentaries and investigative journalism articles on it all.

Become media literate. Be a responsible citizen. [b] So far, Americans appear to be doing a pretty awful job at this[/b] - too dumb and ignorant for the privilege of the internet and it’s being used against them.

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Everything is "the internet" now. I know older people have trouble understanding this, but everything is online. Even appliances now. 
The book suggestions are horrible and biased. 
Bolded parts are true. [/quote]

These books are written by an award winning tech reporter for the Wall Street Journal,  a research manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory, a Harvard Law professor who teaches and is the co-director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard,  the other research director there, and a fellow there.

Or read the news:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-were-sharing-3-million-russian-troll-tweets/

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/02/russia-troll-farm/553616/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anti-vax-movement-russian-trolls-fueled-anti-vaccination-debate-in-us-by-spreading-misinformation-twitter-study/

The articles are endless. [b]Pick your source. 
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Agree with bolded part. Let the reader decide, for good or bad. Freedom is scary. It leads to bad things. It also leads to good things. Such is the nature of freedom. [/quote]

“I’m an American, it’s my God given right to be as stupid as I wanna be!”[/quote]

Pretty much that. Same as any country that values freedom. Oddly enough, Americans tend to have one of the higher overall rates of intelligence, despite the outliers, of any other country except perhaps Japan, which is very homogenous in nature. [/quote]

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