Right Wing attacks on social media aren’t just ideological. They’re using anger toward sites like Twitter to launch their own efforts that will not only trap supporters in echo chambers but also provide the massive amounts of money needed to fuel a worldwide political operation.
You’ll notice that almost all discussions among Right Wing actors about any issue are woven through with advertisements to their tech startups.
It’s a grift, but it’s also the means by which these extremists are planning to fund their political ventures.
It’s a grift, but it’s also the means by which these extremists are planning to fund their political ventures.
Undoubtedly, part of the Right’s plan, long term, is to regain power in the US and attack established tech and social media, possibly leaving only favored propaganda arms standing. That kind of ideological control of reality is just…staggering in its implications.
Social media is, in effect, the privatization of the public square or arena. The fact that it has been commodified already is troubling and should be unmade, but the Right grasps this in a way hardly anyone else does, and understands the possibilities for power and control.
Again, so much of what’s happening in this moment of crisis is obvious but continued preference for delusion and a crumbling status quo keeps people from dealing with. Things are escalating in a hurry. Time to face this thing head on before it’s too late.
I’ll leave you with this: imagine the antidemocratic, fascistic Right controlling a social media venture with all the data and surveillance and, not to mention, the cash and influence Big Tech has at its disposal.
Sit with that for a minute.
Sit with that for a minute.
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