Idk about the elections, but as a Ukrainian I’ve seen the stark difference in about a half a year since he bought twitter.
He manually switched off visibility for NAFO. Like as if they became shadowbanned, invisible to the “for you” feed.
He made it so big Ukrainian accounts are mostly visible to Ukrainians only. This was enough not to make them leave the platform but silenced their voices to the outside world.
It’s quite obvious we were just the testing grounds, USA elections were the real deal.
That’s happening everywhere, including here on Lemmy. Your instance controls what’s seen on the all page, so the larger instances control what the larger audiences see.
Allowing voting machines to connect to Starlink and that largely happening in the rural areas of swing states, coupled with the snarky “we have a plan” comments and jokes, should raise more concern that it has thus far.
Idk about the elections, but as a Ukrainian I’ve seen the stark difference in about a half a year since he bought twitter.
He manually switched off visibility for NAFO. Like as if they became shadowbanned, invisible to the “for you” feed.
He made it so big Ukrainian accounts are mostly visible to Ukrainians only. This was enough not to make them leave the platform but silenced their voices to the outside world.
It’s quite obvious we were just the testing grounds, USA elections were the real deal.
That’s happening everywhere, including here on Lemmy. Your instance controls what’s seen on the all page, so the larger instances control what the larger audiences see.
Is it really a thing? I don’t mean defederation, do threadiverse instances use custom algorithms to provide content to users custom-tailored to them?
Allowing voting machines to connect to Starlink and that largely happening in the rural areas of swing states, coupled with the snarky “we have a plan” comments and jokes, should raise more concern that it has thus far.
There’s no doubt that social media has been weaponized to affect people’s opinion. That is not the same as “rigging an election”.