[–] 21 points 2 years ago

I passed on it. They sent reminder messages to both my email and reddit mail after the initial one. So, I suspected that the response may have been lackluster.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If I remember correctly the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence quietly released a bipartisan report some years back conforming the existence of Russian trolls in the 2016 election. I haven't seen any evidence or reports released that they have ceased their attempts at manipulating social media since then.

    I do agree though, a lot of the posts are just real people who know that hate gets more engagement and crazy people.

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  • [–] 62 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Popular is dominated by posts about relationship drama, freakout videos, and things like amiugly. Rarely do you see any major stories on popular now. Aliens could be invading and destroying half the world and the top posts would probably be about whether someone was the bad one for breaking up with their partner due to not washing the dishes.

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  • [–] 56 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Perhaps, Musk can create some bots that auto respond in a shocker manner to the trolls so they keep paying for the blue checks. Sort of like what those dating sites did with the fake members.

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