- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
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.”
It’s redundant to call it technology. If you accept this as technology, you could accept literally every post on Kbin and lemmy as technology posts, because all of them technically have as much to do with it.
The fake user wasn’t even talking about the platform. They were talking about political viewpoints.
A fake person affected public opinion by interacting with real people, which is only made possible by society’s current relationship with social media. This was done presumably to incite and rage bait for the opposition and supposedly by an outside nation actor, making this an act of cyber warfare. One of many we’ve seen, and more each day. And guess what? The way you combat that kind of information war is by informing the public, especially that circle of people who actually build these technologies (soooo this sub, pretty much).
It is absolutely not redundant to call it a technology topic. How society interacts with and is affected by technology is an exceedingly important topic within technology and it’s continued development it we want it to be for the betterment of humanity and not the enslavement of it. Technology isn’t just how the electrons move, that’s literally only a teensy tiny part of it.
An interesting viewpoint.
Would you have even bothered to write it if you weren’t trying to prove the validity of this article on this community though? Cause none of what you said is in the article.
The article explains: The fake person, what topics they went over, and suggests possibilities as to where they came from.
Hell, look at the OPs post, they were more interested in the political side as of the discussion as well. It’s “we caught this cartoonishly labeled leftwing person wasn’t real!”, not “Twitter made it possible for a fake user to affect mass opinion”