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originally posted by: frogs453
Hoping to foster a discussion. I saw both of these videos referenced in the article below spread like wildfire over social media by exremely popular pundits.
People believed they were true and accurate and continued to forward them, spread them. What do you think can be done or should be done in these instances. And these are particular examples, but this goes for all. Not all people spend time checking if a website it came from seems sketchy or analyzes what they see. If it fits their agenda they just run with it, maybe they know it's likely fake, but there are many who believe things just because they saw it online. Granted we know that some pundits have received foreign money to post, though they say they were duped, they happened to post the same talking points as the foreign country.
Microsoft explained that the video blaming Harris for a fake hit-and-run incident came from a Russian-aligned influence network it calls Storm-1516, which other researchers refer to as CopyCop. The video, whose main character is played by an actor, is typical of the group’s efforts to react to current events with authentic-seeming “whistleblower” accounts that may seem like juicy unreported news to U.S. voters, the company said.
The report revealed a second video disseminated by the group, which purported to show two Black men beating up a bloodied white woman at a rally for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. The video racked up thousands of shares on the social platform X and elicited comments like, “This is the kind of stuff to start civil wars.”
Fortune.com
originally posted by: wAnchorofCarp
originally posted by: network dude
originally posted by: ksihkahe
a reply to: network dude
Excellent suggestion for an edit.
I should change operational status to "deploying assault memes".
Unfortunately, you're now a felon in California for aiding and abetting the production of satire.
when meme's are outlawed, only outlaws will use memes. Or something.
"The tree of memery must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
originally posted by: rickymouse
Our whole country is starting to cater to people's wants and desires now and making them dependent on the government for necessities by having them stand in line at food banks. What happened to our society.
Satire will be illegal in California