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ShazamIam

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12. I think one reason internet use has faded is the cancelling of many of the propaganda and
Wed Jul 28, 2021, 09:58 AM
Jul 2021

highly manipulative AstroTurf and bot generated comments and posts. The big dominate sites have been forced to remove this kind of traffic in particular for misinformation about the Big Lie and COVID, such as facebook, twitter, reddit and even those news provider sites with large comment content such as thehill, politico, WaPo.
But yes I also agree, there is a lot of disillusionment with any purpose for posting and participating, burn out.

In other words I see less of the constantly repeated conservative talking point lies and and what used to look to me like posts to make liberals and progressives seem as stupid and uninformed as the conservatives. By that I mean the posts that aren't liberal or progressive ideas but match the talking point attacks about who and what a progressive or liberal is.



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