If people are ready to vote for right-wing extremists, it is not because of the cyber cyber cyber or Twitter bots, or someone's hacking.
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Replying to @botherder
If that were the case there'd be no need to campaign at all.
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Replying to @JohnHultquist
Some campaign might contribute to polarizing, but pretend that it's the primary responsible for uptake of extremist politics is ridiculous.
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Replying to @botherder
There are important social dynamics, but in the US at least, fundraising is heavily correlated to winning. A dump is just earned media.
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Replying to @JohnHultquist
Point is, there are deep societal issues that led to the surge of a dangerous far-right and those issues are not born out of Twitter.
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Replying to @botherder @JohnHultquist
Right: what no one wants to look at is 1) neoliberalism ideology brought financial crisis still impacting EU, flyover 2) instability in MENA
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And the resonance of fake news (from all sides, & we should remember all sides used it) has more to do w/collapsing ideology than skill.
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Replying to @emptywheel @botherder
Not arguing, but was the scale comparable on both sides?
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There were just two sides? It was more complex than that.
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