Wow. NC Governor Roy Cooper blasts "bad actors and platforms like X" for "a relentless vortex of disinformation"

[highplainsdem]

9-tweet thread, with most of the tweets links to articles about this.

Complete thread on Threadreader: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1843067124467794030.html


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[PedroXimenez]

1. Trump is all four n/t

[Cha]

2. I love this from Gov Roy Cooper...TY!

Link to tweet

:grouphut:

[TomCADem]

27. YouTube Video Recommendations Lead to More Extremist Content for Right-Leaning Users, Researchers Suggest

While some folks attack traditional journalistic outlets for the rise of the extreme right, a better argument that the rise of the racist right is due to the decline of traditional journalism, which has been replaced by social media, which operates to radicalize users by providing self-reinforcing recommendations that promote racism and sexism.

https://www.ucdavis.edu/curiosity/news/youtube-video-recommendations-lead-more-extremist-content-right-leaning-users-researchers

YouTube tends to recommend videos that are similar to what people have already watched. New research has found that those recommendations can lead users down a rabbit hole of extremist political content.

A multidisciplinary research team in communication and computer science at the University of California, Davis, performed a systematic audit of YouTube’s video recommendations in 2021 and 2022. They tested how a person’s ideological leaning might affect what videos YouTube’s algorithms recommend to them. For right-leaning users, video recommendations are more likely to come from channels that share political extremism, conspiracy theories and otherwise problematic content. Recommendations for left-leaning users on YouTube were markedly fewer, researchers said.

“YouTube’s algorithm doesn’t shield people from content from across the political spectrum,” said Magdalena Wojcieszak, a professor of communication in the College of Letters and Science and a corresponding author of the study. “However, it does recommend videos that mostly match a user’s ideology, and for right-leaning users those videos often come from channels that promote extremism, conspiracy theories and other types of problematic content.”

The study, “Auditing YouTube’s recommendation system for ideologically congenial, extreme, and problematic recommendations,” was published this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

[MagickMuffin]

3. And to think this is considered normal behavior by a lot of people

To harm your fellow Americans by spreading hateful lies and propaganda is strictly unconscionable!

[mdbl]

10. It's considered normal by abnormal people.

[dweller]

4. The unroll

Ok nevermind … I thought they were Cooper tweets


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[Emrys]

5. They ARE there

Cooper's later tweets in the thread were simply links to media stories, which do appear in the unrolled version as bare URLs or dressed-up links.

[highplainsdem]

6. As I said in the OP, most of the tweets were links to news articles. Those links are at Threadreader.

[Figarosmom]

7. I thknk they should

Be held accountable too. So maybe the governor should sue trump and musk.

[mdbl]

8. GOP has become the party of hate and lies

They have no redeeming value.

[mdbl]

9. Eloon has made X into a cesspool of weirdos

[dchill]

21. Also a klavern of traitors.

[littlemissmartypants]

11. That's my beloved guvna!! Have you seen the pictures of him

Wearing eye protection goggles and using a circular saw during a clean up session?

You know who would think that kind of behavior is beneath him. When the truth is he lacks compassion and would probably cut his own (or intentionally someone else's) hand off in an attempt.

Thank you, Governor Cooper! You've been so good to us. We'll miss you deeply when you're gone!

[mopinko]

12. avoid the comments on this 1.

[wolfie001]

18. Most are russian I'm sure ................nt

[mopinko]

19. yup. lotta blue checks.

[617Blue]

13. Way to go Gov!

[edisdead]

14. NAME THEM!!!

Name the bad actors! Especially the politicians!

[wolfie001]

20. These two massive TT personas

Huge platforms, 100% spreading RW disinformation with a phoney-ass southern drawl.

[OldBaldy1701E]

23. Hear Hear!

By name, and make sure to indicate their party affiliation as well.

[oldsoftie]

15. Networks need to start broadcasting from right in the middle

Be right there on the ground showing everyone just how BIG the response actually has been

[Quiet Em]

16. "hurts real people"

and they know it, but they don't care. It hurts real people. Shame on Musk and all of them.

[wolfie001]

17. Mama Tot/Ophelia on TT

Was spreading these lies to her millions and millions of followers. She pretended to be pro-LGBTQ as well. Big-time trumper. Boy did she get called out. Tone-deaf and clueless with an "awe shucks" phoniness that'll make you throw up in your mouth.

[rainin]

22. How? How do we hold anyone accountable for speech that we consider "free"? We have to confront this

problem. Disinformation, misinformation, and outright lies cause harm. So far, our allegiance to the 1st Amendment has us hamstrung to do anything to stop our enemies from tearing us apart. It's known to us that you don't have to have a superior military to take down a democracy, you only need to divide to conquer.

Ideas anyone? Are there limits that a democracy could construct to protect the democracy?

[Initech]

24. It's the usual hate, conspiracy theories and intimidation from the Fux News crowd.

Guaranteed if NC had a republican governor that they'd be patting themselves on the back. Fuckers.

[Linda Ed]

25. with trump NC is all about money

He set up a go fund me for NC ..wondering how much he will take from it knowing they are rich in lithium mining...North Carolina has the largest hard rock lithium deposit in the United States, and is becoming a leader in lithium production. Plus, Microsoft has committed to invest $1 billion in a four data center campus in Catawba County, North Carolina. So why is trump so involved? Figure it out $$$$$$,,,Know why elon musk and trump are such buddy buddy's now? Go figure...$$$$$