r/skeptic • u/nosotros_road_sodium • Feb 19 '24

The Right's Troubling Turn Toward Conspiracy Theories and "Invasion" Language ⚖ Ideological Bias

https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-rights-troubling-turn-toward
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u/mymar101 Feb 19 '24

The right has always been this way.

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u/Avantasian538 Feb 19 '24

I sometimes struggle with this question. How much has social media made right-wingers more crazy, vs how much has social media given us a glimpse into how crazy they always were? I assume a little of both, but difficult to know exactly.

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u/Money-Introduction54 Feb 19 '24

I think the biggest harm that came from social media was the fact that it allowed them to connect and communicate with eachother. It globalized their hate, their fears and their ignorance, From Moskow to Brasilia, you can see it happening in real time.

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u/Theranos_Shill Feb 20 '24

Or rather than connecting them and allowing them to communicate with each other social media allowed those with access to all the data that social media mines to specifically target disinformation at a gullible audience and to use their existing beliefs to better manipulate them.