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Recommended Video on X
Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2024 4:13 am
by Kishkumen
I watch this electronic music channel by this really smart guy named Benn Jordan who does deep dives on non-music-related topics occasionally. I have found them to be pretty high quality and illuminating. This video, which you can access with the link below, is all about how Elon Musk let bots overrun X in the run-up to the election. If true, it’s pretty frightening stuff:
https://youtu.be/GZ5XN_mJE8Y?si=ev0iWYH-FlxF0q1L
Re: Recommended Video on X
Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2024 12:09 pm
by Moksha
Kish, have you ever wondered whether posts on this message board originated from some server at the St. Petersburg Hackers Collective?
Re: Recommended Video on X
Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2024 12:49 pm
by Kishkumen
Moksha wrote: ↑Tue Nov 19, 2024 12:09 pm
Kish, have you ever wondered whether posts on this message board originated from some server at the St. Petersburg Hackers Collective?
That's a good question. I don't know that the investment would be worth the Russians' time. I do think that a number of us have at one point or another been manipulated by Russian disinformation, including myself during the 2016 election. I was pretty upset with the DNC at the time, as someone who was a supporter of Bernie Sanders, and I don't doubt that my anger was stoked partly by some Russian disinformation, although I could not recall now for you which things were suspicious. Since we have seen A.I. posters here, it is certainly possible. We should probably have a policy of banning A.I. posts, unless they are marked in a way that makes them easily recognizable as A.I.. It is clear that we are all the targets of disinformation and information warfare, so we ought to take this issue seriously.