For months, the Erica Marsh account had raised suspicions among online misinformation experts due to her lack of a real-world footprint and her devotion to attention-grabbing viewpoints one called “cartoonishly liberal.”

For months, the Erica Marsh account had raised suspicions among online misinformation experts due to her lack of a real-world footprint and her devotion to attention-grabbing viewpoints one called “cartoonishly liberal.”

  • Dusty@l.dusty-radio.comEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Why is this posted twice?

    What does it have to do with technology?

    Why is a mod posting this crap into this community? Guess it’s time to block this community from my instance if it’s going to turn into political crap.

    • Itty53@kbin.social
      34·
      1 year ago

      It’s the same post. You commented here twice. Which is ironic in hilarious ways. I guess you don’t quite understand this technology…

      Faking a person in the digital world and then using that likeness to affect real world politics has everything to do with technology by the way. We don’t only discuss the bleeding edge of new consumer toys, it’s a pretty broad topic. And politics being the process of how people function together in society … I mean it’s gonna be everywhere.

      If you want to unsubscribe I guess, bye.

      • AnonTwo@kbin.social
        7·
        1 year ago

        No, it has to do with politics. Faking identities has been a thing since early chat rooms, and the article doesn’t go into any technological breakthrough they used. It was pretty much just social engineering.

        • Itty53@kbin.social
          24·
          1 year ago

          There you go again, pretending technology only has to do with the next breakthrough. I mean did you read what I wrote? I literally talked about that explicitly.

          Technology is technology. If it’s relevant today then why shouldn’t it be here? If the US was constructing water wheels again all of the sudden it would be a technology topic and relevant to this sub.

          If you don’t like it and you’re leaving, great. There’s the door, what makes you think anyone cares? Or ought to?

          • AnonTwo@kbin.social
            3·
            1 year ago

            On a technicality point of course not.

            On a point of quality you’d basically flood the community with threads most people aren’t interested in on that logic. And probably turn technology into an American Politics/News community.

            It’s too low a bar to be considered technology. It’s not even going into how twitter allowed it to happen. It’s just the fact this one user exists and talks about politics.

            • Itty53@kbin.social
              22·
              1 year ago

              Be the change you want to see then brother, post what quality content you think ought to be seen and shared. You’re allowed to.

                • Itty53@kbin.social
                  13·
                  1 year ago

                  Are you admitting you don’t even contribute and yet you deign to judge the people who do?

                  • AnonTwo@kbin.social
                    3·
                    1 year ago

                    Sure do. I don’t see any issue with doing that. If it’s a healthy community there shouldn’t be any reason to justify low quality content on it.