alt Hacker NewsOrganizing protests is one thing, but troll farms to agitate and turn the population on itself is the story here too. It helps explain the daily protests.
Organizing protests is one thing, but troll farms to agitate and turn the population on itself is the story here too. It helps explain the daily protests.
The troll farms can't hold a candle to the first-party algorithmic engagement farming/rage baiting being conducted out in the open by Alphabet/Meta/X/etc.
You don't need a conspiracy theory to explain the social dysfunction being created and monetized as part of these firms' core business strategy.