)’s Status for a conversation about content and mobilization.
We discussed how real-world events become online spectacle, why influencers rush to set the narrative, who benefits (in some cases, profits), and what would change things.
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This is not the first time that supposed “massive uk protest image” with the Arc de Triomphe has gone viral! Right wing influencers shared it earlier in September — Grok misidentified the photo as real in that case IIRC.
A factcheck from last time around: [leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...](
IIRC all that labeling stuff was “censorship” & ‘Russian bots’ were a hoax perpetuated by Obama and the Stanford Internet Observatory.
The US senators & representatives calling for people to be fired for their political speech now —that is NOT censorship. The Freedom Caucus decides what words mean.
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Michael Shellenberger, the “CBR Chair of Politics, Censorship, and Free Speech” at the University of Austin, has spent several years now trying to get academics whose speech he doesn’t like fired by lying about them…
These are lying hypocrites pursuing political power — not 1A champions.
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Ppl could just wait 48 hours for his friends and family to say what “he got more political” means
Other profiles and discord chats and whatever will prob drop.
Instead ppl pick 2 bits of evidence - a t-shirt, a Halloween costume, a meme on a bullet - and decide THEY KNOW. They don’t, yet.
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Maybe if you’re 40 lol.
Ask a middle school boy in your life what his favorite brainrot is. Things ppl in their 40s think of as “00s chan culture” are integrated in youth gaming culture at this point. The kids don’t know the etymology, which can be jarring. But memes for 🎃 are not weird to them.
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Things are pretty early but — Tyler Robinson, the guy arrested for the Charlie Kirk murder, doesn’t scream “extremely online nihilist” either. Going as a meme for Halloween is not weird. Irony culture isn’t always nihilistic.
The need to have an immediate answer is a side effect of social media.
Bolsonaro was just found guilty. 🇧🇷
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