• MarmiteLover123 [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.net
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    1 day ago

    Yeah it’s not great. The worst are those large follower “news aggregator” accounts on Twitter/X. They’re honestly worse than streamers. Some of these accounts are run by just straight up propagandists who interview clowns like Scott Ritter and are run by people with the same criminal convictions as Ritter (DD Geopolitics for instance). The lower follower accounts provide much better content but the screwed up algorithm keeps them down.

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      10 hours ago

      Normal people have to work and have some semblance of social life, so people who consistently tweet at a high volume are either bullshitting for the sake of engagement, a team of propagandists pushing an agenda, or just some completely unhinged crank like a certain subgenre of anti-imperialist enthusiasts who thinks every large explosion is caused by tactical nukes.

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        16 hours ago

        With the telegrams at least it’s pretty easy to tell who is running state propaganda. When a telegram starts posting links to never before seen US Space Force documents hacked by North Korea (yes, this actually happened on a big telegram channel, Iran Observer I think), they have to have some ties. Or Fighter-bomber on telegram, who obviously is ex Russian air force