• Ex Nummis@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Those bots have been so successful the past few years that if they shut them all down tomorrow, it wouldn’t matter because they managed to radicalize enough idiots to keep it going.

    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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      9 months ago

      They’ve actually studied this and found it not to be true. I’ll look for the study later, but it said that if you cut off access to Fox News and Facebook, people get less racist and wanting to do harm.