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radius777

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1. Social media writ large is dominated by the RW,
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 01:47 AM
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which is a major problem for us. It's not just content, but even simple comments on many platforms such as Yahoo news, Google/Youtube that are critical of Trump or the RW get deleted and ratio'd (voted down) - because the RW/Russia trolls run rampant and downvote and report anything they don't like. That influences the algo's toward a RW bias. Since there's no real way it seems to get rid of RW trolls, it would seem the only solution may be to enlist or hire our own counter-troll army. At least that may help to even things out.

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