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What is Elon Musk’s involvement in the riots really about?
@ecksmc Hungary was the start of some of this. They're replaying what brought Orban into power. https://hungarianspectrum.wordpress.com/2012/12/29/the-siege-of-the-hungarian-television-station-september-18-2006/
@AnnetteTRemain honestly don't think the UK riots can be linked in anyway, shape, or form, to what happened in Hungry
For one the people involved in UK riots right now won't remember the Hungry situation if they even knew about it in first place
What kicked the UK riots off was pure misinformation from a fake news site and social media influencers spreading that misinformation
https://counter.social/@ecksmc/112883499822975472
The eejits involved in riots, and ejjits spreading misinformation, ain't that clued up
@ecksmc far right resurgence worldwide. Pushing disinformation, chaos, and hate topples moderate or left wing governments and brings in far right strongmen gov.
@AnnetteTRemain yeah hungry riots ain't same as UK riots
Most of the actual disinformation comes from bad actors in other countries like Russia, Iran and these right wing eejits are "useful idiots"
The ring leader is a Russian asset his followers are Russian useful idiots
https://counter.social/@ecksmc/112906394066700795
UK rioters ain't got a plan - people pushing the misinformation on other hand have a plan "destroyed from within"
To understand this information war, we need to understand where and how arguments and ideologies are promoted and developed online.
https://counter.social/@ecksmc/112351612681379638
Carefully crafted social media posts and other online propaganda are fighting to make people around the world take sides
@ecksmc some of it is trolls, bots, ai, targeted ads, target search results, etc. On X there's a saudi arabian guy who opened an account that pushed sweet posts then followed everyone. People need to have followers like they are small children needing to be liked so they follow any ass who follows them. Then account switches to disinformation. They also pay some people to push it. That saudi arabian account I mentioned is one of the main conductors of the Trump trains on X.
@AnnetteTRemain if that account is saying they are Saudi Arabian if bet my last £ they ain't Saudi Arabian..... More than likely are a different nationality and probably work for some intelligence agency off-books - Russia and Iran always hire people to work social media bot farms
(how a bunch of politics crap end up in trending)
@ecksmc well its one of the key players behind the Trump trains that led up to Jan 6 and it seems people are either completely incompetent or willfully blind that the account is still active and noone has gone after it. Where's our intelligence? The one that hired the mofo Sebastian Gorka for counterterrorism? Have they spotted the major accounts pushing disinfo yet?
@AnnetteTRemain btw its naive to think our Intel agencies, CIA, GCHQ, Mi5/Mi6/SIS, NCA, FBI etc... aren't doing the same as Russia or Iran and others cause they are
Heck USA got caught pushing a massive misinformation campaign recently
https://counter.social/@ecksmc/112622279794658709
They all watch each others campaigns unfolding going after them just tips the "other side" of that they are onto them so they shut it down and open new ones - watching and observing is more productive in gathering Intel