Thread by @brooklynmarie

But my colleagues and I could have told you that. It’s all recycled Bircher and LaRouchian hysteria

https://twitter.com/miriamelder/status/1179914624008896512

I mean for fuck’s sake truthorfiction.com/joe-the-plumbe…

And then pizzagate? You know how it started? Hillary Clinton was allegedly drinking children’s blood or feeding on their fear-hormones. Then there’s all that psychosexual hysteria about Latinx people and the border.

You have to be pretty willfully stupid to believe this shit

But the danger here is that all of that personality data stolen from us by social media platforms is being used to find and flood people predisposed to believe this shit and act on it with bespoke algorithms

So if you’re already a dumbass racist piece of shit you are going to get a bunch of political ads and like-minded posts clustered in your feed encouraging you to buy guns to protect against the menace of ...whatever

See my pinned thread for more please thank you

This is the kind of bullshit pickle societies get into when they decide technology is just fine without being accompanied by ethics, journalism, sociology, or history.

Anyway that’s how so many of us have seen major personality changes in people we thought we knew over the past few years