They don’t care about the ‘argument’. They don’t care about right or wrong. They care about making a lot of money, and if that means stoking division, hatred, anger and even social collapse, so be it!
What do the algorithms prioritize? Car crashes. Doesn’t matter if they are figurative (whether it be philosophical, political, religious, sexist or something else) or literal.
Controversy and outrage drive attention.
Social media adds accelerant.
Every time an FB user says ‘f*k u’ an angel gets their wings… and FB gets a dollar (Yes, I’m exaggerating).
Facebook doesn’t care about the social good: they even helped facilitate a genocide against the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar. They give discounts to incendiary hate-baiting accounts. Read Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams for more about the behind-the-scenes at your favourite f*ckable-face social media app.
They only care about growing, like a virus, or a cancer, as Agent Smith might say.
Apparently, there are AI troll farm accounts posting extremist memes to the hard right, which generate attention and money for the meme-master. They tried the left wing angle and found it didn’t generate enough cash.
Darkly hilarious.
The FSB/KGB doesn’t care about the money, though: they’re in it for the vitriol. They do it all, venomous right wing extremism today and leftist tomorrow, all part of an unbroken tradition going back to the legendary KGB intelligence officer Ivan Ivanovich Agayants, who orchestrated anti-semitic attacks across Europe in the wake of WWII.
Of course, first he ran them in Russia, outside Moscow, where KGB agents smashed gravestones and daubed swastikas about with wild abandon. Because user testing is key! Am I right or what? It got the desired result: a number of villagers took this as permission to carry out real anti-semitic attacks, so the operation was taken global.
Nothing says ‘integrity’ like ‘intelligence officer’.
Former KGB General Oleg Kalguin said the purpose was to ‘mainstream anti-Semitism’. They had yellow swastikas painted on graves on Staten Island, wrote hate to Jewish American leaders, vandalized synagogues, and worse.
Even better, from their point of view, was the vast ocean of racial bigotry they could weaponize in the United States.
Most importantly?
They’ve never stopped, and now they have the biggest, richest, most powerful companies in the world following in their innovative wake.
They want us angry. They want us yelling at each other, they want hate and disruption, chaos and ultimately (the FSB at least) civil war and social collapse in the West.
And they LOVE toxicity of the algorithm. They couldn’t have written it better themselves.
Because themethods of the modern FSB/KGB/NKVD/OGPU on social media are indistinguishable from Social Media companies and their contemptible Outrage Marketer brethren.
The argument isn’t real. It’s a con.
The fight isn’t real. It’s engineered.
It’s ‘Let’s you and him fight’ bullshit.
You are being manipulated.
All so unprincipled corporate executives can sit back and make a bigger buck.
Be like Roy Scheider: take a step back from the chum.
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