Social Media Can Be a Really Stupid Place Full of Really Stupid People and Increasingly I Fear There’s Nothing to Do About It

Social Media Can Be a Really Stupid Place Full of Really Stupid People and Increasingly I Fear There’s Nothing to Do About It

A MAGA influencer with 1m followers accused a Trump official of entrapment over a routine tip – then melted down publicly. It's a perfect example of how social media can wreck the causes it claims to serve, says Eugyppius.

The Data Republican Drama, or: Social media can be a really stupid place full of really stupid people and increasingly I fear there’s nothing to do about it

Populist political movements face fierce opposition from the establishment press everywhere they exist, with unrelenting hostile coverage across all public and private media. This has forced the opposition to lean heavily on social media platforms, and regime-adjacent reporters have responded by tarring these platforms as cesspools of “Russian disinformation” and algorithmic manipulation in turn. This state of affairs has profoundly shaped polit…