@lightbites @jti42 @pkal @ghul @landley that is a good question.
There's a great article up by @cwarzel in The Atlantic about The Gleeful Cruelty of the White House X Account. It's a scary but thoughtful analysis of a grim societal trend, focusing specifically on how intensification is implemented via the ex-bird site, lately a cesspool of distilled toxicity from which many still regularly feed.
ESPECIALLY the part in Warzel's article about ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response) made me shudder. The article is worth reading for that part alone.
(His post at BlueSky, which I've linked below, has what I think may be a gift link.)
https://bsky.app/profile/cwarzel.bsky.social/post/3llhtsiyzhs2d
#sociopathy #evil #fascism #escalation #asmr #radicalizing #StochasticTerror #StochasticTerrorism #weaponizing #USPolitics #politics
> Soufan urged lawmakers to take the threat more seriously. The (next) month, 40 members of Congress signed a letter calling—unsuccessfully—for the US #StateDepartment to designate Azov a (…) #terrorist organization. "Azov has been recruiting, #radicalizing, and training American citizens for years," (it) said. #ChristopherWray, the director of the FBI, later confirmed in testimony to the U.S. Senate that American #whiteSupremacists are "actually traveling overseas to train."
#USStateDept, lol
"#YouTube’s #recommendation system is engineered to maximize watchtime, among other factors, the company says, but not to favor any political ideology.
The system now drives 70% of total time on the platform. As viewership skyrockets globally, YouTube is bringing in over $1 billion a month, some analysts believe."
@zeynep@twitter.com has called it “one of the most powerful #radicalizing instruments of the 21st century.”
#Brazil #Google
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/11/world/americas/youtube-brazil.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
