I notice a large number of ragebait-y political communities being spun up by new users with thousands of posts & ai profile header photos. I notice comment sections are more acrimonious, and foreign disinfo talking points are circulating a lot more prolifically than before the US election started ramping up.

Anyone else notice this? Any idea on how to combat it on this platform? Are there any communities built around creating block lists of obvious troll/ai/disinfo accounts & communities?

  • snooggums@midwest.social
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    3 months ago

    Keep in mind that the US’s population is comparable to all of Europe and we are bickering over one shared election while also being a bunch of loud jackasses. We don’t even think about the rest of the internet while drowning it out.

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      3 months ago

      Comparable not really. The EU has a population of 450 million compared to 350 million of the US. Europe itself has more than double at 750 million. Also, there are many more countries outside of Europe that have a lot of people that speak English online.