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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 30 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (9 children)

All of the US corporate social media platforms are part of the US military-industrial-intellegence complex now. Look at their boards of directors and executives. Look at the Twitter Files. Look Hamilton 68.

Look at Reddit:

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TikTok as well. The US already forced them to move their service to the US on an American-owned hosting provider, and they have already put people with a history of aligning with “American interests” into executive positions, like CEO Shou Zi Chew and vice president Michael Beckerman.

They have their eye on the fediverse now: Atlantic Council » Collective Security in a Federated World

[–] pwalker@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Twitter files are mostly a tool for Elon Musks policy. Wiki entry shows enough of why they are problematic. The Hamilton 68 controversy isn't a big thing like you are pretending. If anything their database was misunderstood. https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-hamilton-68-russian-online-influence-tracker-2023-2?op=1

[–] ToucheGoodSir@lemy.lol 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Glad to see the first comment in this chain being one calling out the usage of the Twitter files as a serious supporting point for anything but a point of deflection by Mr "I don't use pr firms".

Immediately emptied out a salt shaker on how I viewed everything else in the original comment :| homie thinks the Twitter files are relevant.. ehhh I probably don't have much interest or respect in any of their other opinions

[–] pwalker@discuss.tchncs.de -2 points 8 months ago

guess I'm being downvoted by the tinfoil hats in here anyway. Same as the twitter users, it's often not bots that are the problem but rather dumb people :-(

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