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I disagree. I think social media plays a much larger role in this then anyone is willing to admit.
Just look at the effort by people who want power to to manipulate and own social media.
Whare i think needs to happen is the left need to go back to their roots. Create their own bots. Leverage ai. Confront them on every social media space
What they want to control is the algorithm that decides who sees what you post.
Everyone thinks that they have a platform, but that's just an illusion, what everyone else sees is decided by the algorithm. It is essentially like a TV station that is personalized to each viewer.
You can manipulate public opinion. This is especially worse with generative AI, as now you can generate content without needing users that would spread message you want to amplify. You just generate the content you want.
This is why billionaires want to control it, because it gives them power to persuade you what to buy, how to vote, what causes you want to support etc.
You as an ordinary person don't matter, when they control the algorithm they can simply mute you.
That's why activism on social media is just an illusion. If you go on the street it is much harder to filter you.
This is an X narrative. I recognize it from my TRANS family member who is in their early 20s and won't leave Twitter.
They literally called it the front page of the internet.
Only when I asked them why Republicans and Trump and other entities are so afraid of protesting did they relent.
Online networks manifest as real world actions. Period.
Being informed is the first step. If you don't have that you continue to do nothing while your enemies flourish.
If the left doesn't reexamine the Twitter narratives pushed since Musk bought Twitter, we have already lost to our enemies.
MeToo didn't go too far. Neither did pronouns.
Biden didn't prosecute Trump or Epstein's other conspirators and this is what we get. That's what happened. We didn't go far enough.
You're assuming that sites like Twitter will be fair to you regardless of the stances you have.
One that controls the algorithm controls the message.