I notice a large number of ragebait-y political communities being spun up by new users with thousands of posts & ai profile header photos. I notice comment sections are more acrimonious, and foreign disinfo talking points are circulating a lot more prolifically than before the US election started ramping up.

Anyone else notice this? Any idea on how to combat it on this platform? Are there any communities built around creating block lists of obvious troll/ai/disinfo accounts & communities?

  • x00z@lemmy.world
    4818·
    7 months ago

    Keep in mind that American elections are coming up and Americans think the internet is only about them. So we’re not only being dragged into this by disinformation campaigns.

    • snooggums@midwest.socialEnglish
      93·
      7 months ago

      Keep in mind that the US’s population is comparable to all of Europe and we are bickering over one shared election while also being a bunch of loud jackasses. We don’t even think about the rest of the internet while drowning it out.

      • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        7 months ago

        Comparable not really. The EU has a population of 450 million compared to 350 million of the US. Europe itself has more than double at 750 million. Also, there are many more countries outside of Europe that have a lot of people that speak English online.

      • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
        111·
        7 months ago

        Besides a strong military ally it has indeed not had much positive impact.

        • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@midwest.social
          71·
          7 months ago

          Not a jazz fan? Not a rock’n’roll fan? Not a hip-hop fan?

          How about transistors? Or the Green Revolution? Or the polio vaccine?

        • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
          13·
          7 months ago

          Lol negative impact inexplicably doesn’t count. Our president totally having just no power to reduce or increase negative impacts. yep very intelligent viewpoint here