The Rise of Anti-Flock Influencers Who Make Things Up for Clout
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Instagram influencers are creating fake cease-and-desist letters, making themselves go viral and muddying the waters about mass surveillance.
  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    6 hours

    Controlled opposition anyone? Reminds me of some of the anecdotal shit that happened around Occupy Wall Street

    • Techno-rat@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      5 hours

      good hunch. What makes controlled opposition effective is precisely the smokescreen it creates. Because its very plausible this is constructed, and unfortunately just as plausible that it’s just social media brainworms… Casting doubt on every part of the equation.

    • Rioting Pacifist@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 hours

      Seems unlikely.

      I don’t understand the desire on the left to pretend there are no clout chasers that take up left causes just for clout, I guess it’s easier to pretend everyone that does a bad thing while being vaguely aligned with us is “controlled opposition” than to think critically or even just read the article.

      Occupy might have been different I wasn’t there but I suspect 95% of the wild anecdotal shit either didn’t happen or was done by a leftist who believed some dumb shit.

    • mynameisbob@lemmy.mlEnglish
      9 hours

      we in a simulation… not that you are wrong about things but just askew. Like everyone. It is just all shaddows dancing on the walls. A unholy puppet show. Edward Bernays butt baby.

  • mynameisbob@lemmy.mlEnglish
    9 hours

    Reminds me of DNC funded leftist breadtubers. A whole arse sea of dildos to employ on both sides to farm outrage. Some got a whole team of marketurds. We in the matrix. Really it is an attempt to co opt the conversation to deflate the real opposition so they can ram it through. Both parties want this. IT i$ A mAtTuRd oF nAti()nAl sEcuRitUrdY… nOw g0 tO jAiL Fooooooorever.

    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      6 hours

      I, uh, definitely would have worded this with more care, but if anyone believes their side is somehow immune to corporate interests funding or manipulating drama and outrage? It’s dumb to think that the rich sociopaths would uniquely mess with one political side while leaving another completely alone.

      Nothing to do with any side being right, wrong, better, or worse. Everything to do with rish assholes being rich assholes.