Blatant Manipulation

thegunguy

Administrator
Staff member
This is a couple of months old, but I'm really behind after my injury and I'm still catching up.

Remember back in August when #clintonbodycount was trending, then that was removed from the trendline and #trumpbodycount was there instead?

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Here's a sampling of the sorts of posts we were seeing at that time:

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Care to guess where these were originating from? This should help (I wish the creator of this graphic had switched the Red and Blue colors, but oh well):

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Blatant manipulation, probably all from the Bay area, a couple of bot farms, and their understanding of how the algorithms operate and therefore how to directly affect public perception of how the national conversation is going.
 
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thegunguy

Administrator
Staff member
Actually, I have a better breakdown:

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No real surprise there, but the ability to change what's trending so easily (and so obviously) is disturbing.
 

Taliv

Moderator
Staff member
Unbelievable. I wonder how much public support there would be for regulating twitter if this was widely reported
 

Taliv

Moderator
Staff member
Total tangent but I don’t see it that way. Twitter is a platform that lets trump talk to you directly without
-relying on the media to report it
-hoping the media doesn’t spin it or mid report it
-you having to waste time watching the news
 
I don’t watch the news and I’m not on Twitter and I’m more informed then 99% of the public.

The media reports Twitter as if it was news and actually reflected public opinion when in fact it mostly reflects the opinion of the people financing the bot farms.
 

grampster

Member
The MSM is also for twits. The Today show had shrinks and doctors on for two days informing everyone how to cope with the end of DST and what practices they needed to impose upon themselves in order to get around the psychic and physical disaster of moving the clock back an hour early Sunday morning.
 

sparkyv

Member
...and yet the vasy majority of Americans get their news and information from sources such as these. Everything that spews forth from these sources is nefariously and artificially manipulated to present a particularly leftist, "progressive" agenda. When will we ever learn?

Twitter is for twits!
The MSM is also for twits. The Today show had shrinks and doctors on for two days informing everyone how to cope with the end of DST and what practices they needed to impose upon themselves in order to get around the psychic and physical disaster of moving the clock back an hour early Sunday morning.
 

theotherwaldo

Well-known member
-And now it comes out that the FBI was 'suggesting' that Twitter should censor a long list of mostly conservative Twitter users - and paying Twitter for their 'trouble'... .
 
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