Tracking Political Manipulation Through Social Media
Giant media corporations owned by billionaires, run by millionaires, and overwhelmingly staffed by members&#x2F;partisans of a single political party pump out propaganda on all of their mediums 24&#x2F;7 and totally dominate and saturate public opinion but we are supposed to understand that &quot;bots&quot; are a threat to democracy? As someone who has been deemed a &quot;bot&quot; by people who do not wish to hear information they do not like on more occasions than I can recall, I note an insidious aspect of this emphasis on &quot;bots&quot; is that it allows the ready dismissal of any individual expressing heterodoxy and glorifies&#x2F;sanctifies the &quot;official&quot; media previously described. Yet we saw this past week that social media users were able to win a rare victory in bringing the &quot;official&quot; media to heel for their lies and manipulation in setting upon a group of innocent schoolchildren. The official media hates it when their marks push back and thus we get propaganda like this study.