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Bernardo de La Paz

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4. It's fundamentally "outrage media for profit": FB, Instagram, Twitter, Talk Radio, cable "news", ...

Reply to onetexan (Original post)

Fri Oct 29, 2021, 05:27 AM

Oct 2021

They are victims of their own success. They have a tiger by the ears and the shareholders won't let them get off.

They did not know their "algorithms" would be so wildly successful. AM "hot talk radio", from the 30s on into the 90s and beyond, was a known quantity where call-in shows and outrage sell. But I don't think anyone made the connection that social media on the internet would find its profit point in outrage and fear. AM talk radio was run on gut instinct.

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Cosmopolitan: Thousands of People Are Trying to Leave QAnon, but Getting Out Is Almost Impossible [View all] onetexan Oct 2021 OP

What do you need to know about Deprogramming? multigraincracker Oct 2021 #1

How do you deprogram for social media? That's most of it, and its not just Qanon. Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2021 #2

First thing you need to do is to cut off the Social Media...nt Wounded Bear Oct 2021 #19

I did a college paper on cults and brainwashing. The person needs to be removed from all sources. TheBlackAdder Oct 2021 #17

A friend became a member multigraincracker Oct 2021 #26

Maybe someone will start QAnon Anon. nt Buns_of_Fire Oct 2021 #3

*snort canetoad Oct 2021 #24

It's fundamentally "outrage media for profit": FB, Instagram, Twitter, Talk Radio, cable "news", ... Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2021 #4

it boggles the mind Skittles Oct 2021 #5

tRump is the Irredeemable for the Deplorables. They say "He's one of us!". . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2021 #6

This seems so absurd to me. BlueTsunami2018 Oct 2021 #7

right at the start of the article Skittles Oct 2021 #8

They're dopes, but they're also assholes, who frequently don't really care about the children muriel_volestrangler Nov 2021 #27

Many many ppl are weakminded sadly onetexan Oct 2021 #15

Wow, that was some read..... bookmarked for sharing it wide. secondwind Oct 2021 #9

Wow! It is a virtual Jonestown Walleye Oct 2021 #10

I hope the hard-core ones Mr.Bill Oct 2021 #22

They're taking horse dewormer instead of drinking Kool-Aid Walleye Oct 2021 #25

RepubliQans been jerked around by their intimate Russian blackop Kronies Champp Oct 2021 #11

I go on Qanon sites Woodwizard Oct 2021 #12

I don't feel sorry for these idiots. rownesheck Oct 2021 #13

I feel sorry for the rest of us Johnny2X2X Oct 2021 #14

Facebook Algorithms malletgirl02 Oct 2021 #18

I agree. n/t Mr.Bill Oct 2021 #23

It's like any other cult - they got brainwashed without realizing it, and that's how they got in FakeNoose Oct 2021 #16

Seems like if they have already reached the point they "want to leave" GoodRaisin Oct 2021 #20

Deleting social media accounts malletgirl02 Oct 2021 #21

"Truly, whoever can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. Roisin Ni Fiachra Nov 2021 #28