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42 votes
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Elon Musk’s poisoned platform
18 votes -
Following Elon Musk’s lead, Big Tech is surrendering to disinformation
35 votes -
The Dead Internet theory
56 votes -
Dead Internet theory | Esoteric internet
16 votes -
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said the company does not have plans to stop selling the antisemitic film that gained notoriety recently after Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving tweeted out an Amazon link to it
8 votes -
Just days after promising advertisers that Twitter would not be a “free-for-all,” Elon Musk promoted a right-wing rumor about the vicious hammer assault on Paul Pelosi
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Kanye West is buying ‘free speech platform’ Parler
24 votes -
Who is behind QAnon? Linguistic detectives find fingerprints.
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Extremists find a financial lifeline on Twitch
7 votes -
Facebook built the perfect platform for Covid vaccine conspiracies
9 votes -
With Parler down, QAnon moves onto a ‘free speech’ TikTok clone
10 votes -
Twitter will force users to delete COVID-19 vaccine conspiracy theories
11 votes -
What Facebook fed the baby boomers. Many Americans’ feeds are nightmares. I know because I spent weeks living inside two of them.
18 votes -
How Qanon invaded moms' Facebook groups
11 votes -
How a fake persona laid the groundwork for a Hunter Biden conspiracy deluge
12 votes -
What is the Internet doing to baby boomers’ brains? Social media platforms are sucking a generation into a misinformation rabbit hole.
20 votes -
Is QAnon a game gone wrong?
14 votes -
YouTube has become the latest social media giant to announce a sweeping crack down on content linked to the QAnon conspiracy theory
10 votes -
The flashing warning of QAnon: The embrace of apocalyptic memes is a symptom of hyperconnected societies in distress
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Analysis of health misinformation on Facebook finds that it's receiving billions of views—about four times as many as content from leading health institutions—and only 16% has a warning label
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The women making conspiracy theories beautiful: How the domestic aesthetics of Instagram repackage QAnon for the masses
12 votes -
Documents from an internal Facebook investigation show that there are thousands of QAnon groups and pages with millions of followers
12 votes -
Twitter bans 7,000 QAnon accounts, limits 150,000 others as part of broad crackdown
@Twitter Safety: We've been clear that we will take strong enforcement action on behavior that has the potential to lead to offline harm. In line with this approach, this week we are taking further action on so-called 'QAnon' activity across the service.
19 votes -
What's wrong with WhatsApp? As social media has become more inhospitable, the appeal of private online groups has grown. But they hold their own dangers – to those both inside and out
16 votes -
Reverse engineering a £339 5G bioshield
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Nearly half of accounts tweeting about coronavirus are likely bots
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Twitch steamer Dr Disrespect's shtick takes a dangerous turn into spreading coronavirus conspiracy theories
8 votes -
At least twenty UK phone masts vandalised over false 5G coronavirus claims
13 votes -
5G coronavirus conspiracy theory fueled by coordinated effort
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YouTube has banned all conspiracy theory videos falsely linking coronavirus symptoms to 5G networks
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Report detailing online activity of US Coast Guard officer accused of domestic terrorism shows extensive searches on white supremacy, conspiracy theories, and thousands of visits to /r/MGTOW
18 votes -
After three months offline, 8chan returns as 8kun
24 votes -
Russian propaganda stoking 5G health fears in Australia
16 votes -
The science is clear; we've more to fear from baby monitors than 5G
12 votes -
When having friends is more alluring than being right
14 votes -
Facebook reportedly discredited critics by linking them to George Soros
19 votes -
Reddit has banned the QAnon conspiracy subreddit r/GreatAwakening
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Reddit continues its banning spree, r/GreatAwakening has been banned
This was the QAnon subreddit. I filtered it a while ago so not really sure what they’ve been up to of late, but I expect just more of the same. That subreddit genuinely terrified me honestly.
47 votes -
How three conspiracy theorists took 'Q' and sparked Qanon
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Facebook suspends US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones
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Is Hacker News suppressing leftist articles? Or just a conspiracy of poor point scoring?
There was a story posted to Hacker News, The Return of the Super-Elite from Jacobin magazine. It was on the front page for a little bit of time. I refreshed and it was on the 2nd page. 5 hours...
There was a story posted to Hacker News, The Return of the Super-Elite from Jacobin magazine. It was on the front page for a little bit of time. I refreshed and it was on the 2nd page.
5 hours later and it's down to #113, page 4. It has 88 points. The second youngest submission on page 4 is 16 hours old. On page 3, the youngest item is 6 hours old, and has only 7 points. So this article is newer, has a respectable amount of points but within 5 hours has been relegated to page 4, whereas an item that has fewer points and is 1 hour older is sitting on page 3.
edit: the rank keeps dropping, when I first wrote this post it was at #111, then #112, and when I submitted it was at #113, I just refreshed and it's at #114. Other submissions near the range of points and hours are ranking on page 1. On page 5 all items are from 1, 2 or 3 days ago.
I've noticed that any pro-unionization talk seems to disappear much more quickly than other stories.
So let's get our tinfoil hats on and ask is Hacker News suppressing leftist articles or suppressing articles of a certain type altogether?
Or maybe it's just a conspiracy of a bad algorithm for determining where submissions rank?
26 votes