Three guys are the entire comments section on Globe and Mail and CBC articles.
Still fixated on Trudeau and a stage show, and his socks.
I’ve said it before and i’ll say it again: Cambridge Analytica (which is now a BC company whose name i forget) along with russians created Brexit and trump and the interests behind it are hell-bent on Canada next, starting with Alberta (apparrently).
Y’all need to fight them with everything possible to avoid being screwed like we were.
Y’all need to fight them with everything possible to avoid being screwed like we were.
As an Albertan, I promise some of us are trying. Keep a close eye on BC, because I hear they have a BC “Prosperity Project” now too to swat down. Our hands are full trying to contain the damage here.
“Users on Elon Musk’s X were the biggest culprits”
To the surprise of no one.
Can we act against these accounts en masse please?
They’ve got support from Musk and Zuckerberg so that means banning their platforms
I’ve been advocating this for quite a while. I’m honestly confused as to what Canadians are doing and it seems their words are not matching the actions. “Perfect is the enemy of good” they say, which allows them to be complacent and utilize things like social media en-masse, even though the delete button is free and will actually clear your mind to disconnect from those platforms. Please tell me honestly, for example is LinkedIn still expected for tech/adjacent workers in Canada? These are plain and simply propaganda platforms, they are all designed to manipulate minds in precisely the way Orwell or Huxley had predicted. Including dating platforms.
“When you believe a lie for too long, the truth doesn’t set you free. It tears you apart.”
We should have no problems doing this
Let’s not regulate the social media corporations and algorithms who are amplifying propaganda and radicalization for profit though… Let’s force everyone to verify their identity with a big brother constructed by the Epstein class… To protect the kids, of course!
This is why I have conspiracy theories about the conspiracy theories about government-provided digital ID. We could have social media that allows us to know who is verified as a real Canadian human being and who is a truly-anonymous account.
But instead we’re going to get “give your photos to Peter Thiel”, which is a tech that doesn’t solve the problem of anonymous disinfo-peddlers with shadowy backing, but does give the evilest people in the world a way to track you.
Especially since its’ pretty easy to just flag an account on Microsoft or Google as a child account. If they really wanted to just detect children online so that sites can properly enforce adult-only rules, the browser could send that as a header flag.
How do they get this data. Isn’t it stuff that is collected so it’s not even a full set of data. It’s just a collection that some amazing people were able to pull since Facebook locks down their api
There is a well-established “perception gap” between what we think others believe and what they actually believe. A recent poll by ReClimate found that 42 per cent of Canadians think about addressing climate change at least weekly, and yet they believe only 26 per cent of their neighbours do the same. Similarly, research has found as many as 89 per cent of people want more action on climate change — yet those 89 per cent tend to believe they’re in the minority.
So many people shit on me here in lemmy for saying this, but we have to do better. We have to nut the fuck up and deal with this. Instead of the exodus off these social media platforms, we need to be the ones drowning them the fuck out. Who cares if they’re owned by who. It’s all still works based on numbers. We need numbers to identify problems and combat the spread of this. That’s how we all felt back in the day. Defeat misinformation by engaging with it. Somewhere along the line we were all convinced to ignore it which only allowed it to spread more rapidly.
If they want to fuck around, we’re suppose to be the tech literate. We need grass roots networks and forums identifying the leaders and these small number of problem users and we need to make it as difficult as we can for them to work.
It’s not just numbers though, is it? There’s that algorithm thing they use to steer things. Otherwise in principle I agree wirh you.
