Many of my friends find their parents have been manipulated by cult tactics on social media and alternative news sources to become highly polarised and iconoclastic. We need to arm them with compassion, critial thinking and learning on how manipulation tactics are deployed online
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Fair play to you for trying. I guess it's easier for someone to dismiss your arguments if you are not phsyically present. I can relate to a degree. But being a voice of reason is important. They have so many more voices telling them otherwise. What other tools can we use?
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I stopped using facebook and told them why. I'm hoping some see themselves in that post and their reactions to it.https://twitter.com/gamesbymanuel/status/1319025576716455936 …
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Just heard a Jordan Harbinger podcast on fake accounts manipulating public opinion and creating tensions. It's insane! After that I started checking out accounts that were RTed making terrible inflammatory statements. And there you go, most of them looked super-fake
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Yeah, it takes so much time and effort to debunk them and it never ends because while you're doing that they continue spreading more lies.
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