r/The_Donald helped radicalize users into far-right identities and discourse – Active users on r/The_Donald increasingly used white nationalist vocabularies in their comments within three months.

ZeroCool@vger.social · edit-2 7 months ago

r/The_Donald helped radicalize users into far-right identities and discourse – Active users on r/The_Donald increasingly used white nationalist vocabularies in their comments within three months.

Serinus@lemmy.world · 7 months ago

disguising as irony.

About this. It was legitimately funny at first, when the Orange One had no chance.

The thing that turned it so fast from absolute satire into not at all satire was the immediate, within seconds, banning of anyone who called it out as a joke. The speed of those bans convinced me that someone was being paid to steer the narrative in their desired direction 24/7.

It was a masterclass in modern propaganda, and I’m glad it’s being studied.

I learned personal lessons from it. I’m absolutely more PC now, because you never know who’s going to take your absurd joke seriously. As Waddle said, if you say something ironically enough, it stops being ironic.

r/The_Donald helped radicalize users into far-right identities and discourse – Active users on r/The_Donald increasingly used white nationalist vocabularies in their comments within three months.

r/The_Donald helped radicalize users into far-right identities and discourse – Active users on r/The_Donald increasingly used white nationalist vocabularies in their comments within three months.

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