• Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf
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    3 days ago

    It definitely is the enabler though. Without social media, propaganda could never have spread as fast. And it also brought together every village idiot. I know of simpleminded people who never uttered a racist word in their lives before. Now all they talk about is how the AfD will save Germany from the brown people. This is literally brainwashing. So I stand by my comment that social media is the cause of all this.

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      2 days ago

      For sure, I even said so.

      Social media makes it easier to fearmonger and spread hatred, no doubt

      I hate to break it to you though; I grew up during the Cold War and propaganda was literally everywhere before the invention of the internet. Perhaps you’ve heard of the Red Scare?

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        10 hours ago

        I know it had always been there. But social media has made it so much more efficient. It’s hard to compare it with traditional media.

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          10 hours ago

          That, I’m afraid, is the nature of technology: it makes everything easier, even the stuff you really wish it didn’t.