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I think there is a weakness in our societies that can be exposed by foreign actors via social media.

Just because of your Brazilian example of fake (who knows) internal threats, doesn't mean what I just said in this thread is fake:

"Update: After this story published, Facebook took down two of the five troll-farm pages we identified.

In the run-up to the 2020 election, the most highly contested in US history, Facebook’s most popular pages for Christian and Black American content were being run by Eastern European troll farms. These pages were part of a larger network that collectively reached nearly half of all Americans, according to an internal company report, and achieved that reach not through user choice but primarily as a result of Facebook’s own platform design and engagement-hungry algorithm."

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/09/16/1035851/facebook...



I think now I was the one that didn't get my point across correctly.

I'm not claiming anything you say is false. Troll farms and external interference is indeed a problem.

But Musk just bought the election for Trump. If that isn't an indicator that the imminent threat is internal and not external, I don't know what is.




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