people will say its bad on twitter but its easy to spot the chinese, russian, and mossad bots. bluesky was worse on week 1 than twitter in volume of robots alone

Social media makes our life worse in every way The things it helps, it also makes them worse too

I'll try to check some other sources you mention, but concerning 25:02 - do you seriously think that Musk's support of Trump on X was the most important thing that happened that day? Was there nothing else happening that could explain the trend, like the attempted assassination of a presidential candidate? As a Russian, I appreciate you being informed about some of the shit happening here better than a lot of the so-called journalists, but I disagree strongly with your last point: the wearing down is exactly political, and you just spent a chunk of your life on yet another conspiracy theory. I don't think Russian politicians invented post-truth (although it might have crystallized here more rapidly); it's a modern condition in which more and more people have to face what good scientists have faced for a long time: the world is hyper-complex and there is no final definitive truths. Concrete facts shift their meaning depending on the context (narrative), even if that narrative is composed of other concrete facts. For humans context is everything because we can never have the whole picture. Hell, whatever, I too love Baudrillard. Yours is still one of the best channels on youtube, love your passion and hope to still have a working VPN next year to continue watching your stuff.

The world has always been a consensus reality, look at Weimar germany and the stab in the back myth, Antonio Gramsci tactics we see used today etc. A convincing lie wins over an unpleasant or too strange to believe truth

“Your dumb little flute” bruh what the hell 😭

Just stop using X,Twitter, etc. and if the AI generated video content on KZbin continues to get worse, stop using it too. You're not missing out...

I am a heavy user on X and I never saw this misinformation. Also X allowed a lot of lies back on the platform but they also allowed the truth. The truth can not be found on other platforms that are heavy handed with censorship. Hunter Biden laptop, covid lab leak etc.

Every day that passes,I'm glad I live in the EU. It has warts of its own, but damnit if they don't at least try to do something about this shit...

Russian agents will also push true stories to make a greater divide between people in the US. Just because it come from Russia does not make it fake.

Reported for misinformation.

Everyone interested in this video should check out Adam Curtis' Hypernormalization too, it touches a lot of this.

I hate that Elon won. It was fun to laugh at him for overpaying for Twitter, but he won. He controlled the election.

Why do people go on twitter, at all?

If each human adult has a vote and if an unethical person can manoeuvre that vote for profit- whether money or power-they will.

== Summary == • Main Question: What percentage of political interactions on platforms like Twitter/X are bots? • Content Focus: The proliferation and use of bots in online political discourse, primarily influenced by Russian troll farms, and the post-truth era of misinformation. • Context: Postmodern politics and how Russia, influenced by figures like Vladislav Sercov, prioritized destabilizing truth through misinformation. • Russia's Tactics: 1. The use of troll farms like the Internet Research Agency (IRA) founded by Yevgeny Prigozhin. 2. Early troll farm tactics were regional, later expanding to influence global events like the 2016 U.S. elections. 3. Employees were paid minimally, faced high turnover, and were tasked with creating content including fake political discourse. 4. The Kremlin funded opposing groups to confuse Russia's political scene. 5. Sercov's strategy was to remove objectivity, making truth seemingly undefinable. • Expansion of Misinformation: 1. The IRA’s role in spreading content across Facebook and eventually affecting U.S. political events, like the 2016 election. 2. Bot tactics include inflaming both extremes of the political aisle (e.g., Black Lives Matter as well as far-right groups). 3. The goal isn’t making a country right-wing, but rather spreading confusion and keeping society divided. 4. Beginnings of involvement with Telegram and CSAM-related channels, which may tie into a darker side of the misinformation web. • Impact of Bots on Social Media (X/Twitter) Post-Elon Musk Acquisition: 1. Changes post-Musk’s 2022 Twitter acquisition (e.g., reinstating banned accounts, monetizing verification). 2. The decline of content moderation and dismantling of the anti-misinformation team. 3. A significant increase in bot content, especially related to political discourse. 4. Musk's connection to Vladimir Putin and their regular, secret contact raises concerns given his control of SpaceX. • Recent Developments (2023-2024): 1. Signs of algorithm manipulation favoring certain political figures (e.g., Trump). 2. Both Republicans and Democrats are targeted, with observable biases in how political content is shared or amplified, largely through automated systems. • Personal Observations: 1. The author experiences frustration and exhaustion due to the complexity and pervasive influence of bots. 2. A rise in apathy and misinformation makes it challenging to engage critically and effectively with political information online. • Final Thoughts: 1. The video ends with the conclusion that social media, particularly X, fosters an environment designed to confuse and wear down the public. 2. Benn Jordan expresses fatigue with tackling political topics and plans to avoid them in the future. • Sponsorship: 1. Ground News: An app that tracks political biases in news sources and helps identify credible information amidst misinformation. Proceeds go to support UNICEF’s Fund for Ukraine.

Bro spent two seconds on our kitties

I hear this low sound as well. to me, it sounds like being inside a house when someone has bass music up loud in their car, but muffled from being inside a house. I always thought that's what I was hearing, because it's happened a few times that it was what was going on. but there was one time I mentioned it to my bf while it was happening, we were visiting his parents. He said he didn't hear what I was hearing

9:04 what is the music here? my school uses this melody as the bell for some reason

I'm a parent and it's "pee pee poo poo head"

X is not the government... yet.

Thank you so much for doing a deep dive! I learned A LOT.

Admitting to a crime on a publicly available video is pretty bold.

Yes, 1/3rd of people are leftists.

“Any idea I don’t like is a bot.” Such a phony. Your music sucks.

I’m a musician and an Information Ops analyst and am excited to learn that you share my sentiments on fighting against disinformation 😊

My ears ring all the time

Well snap! They still chat. :|

Great video. Something people fail to realize is that bots are not just there to change your mind. They're they're to boost accounts that give favorable coverage. They pay influencers through engagement. The influencer gets plausible deniability and a boost to their viewership/payout, the foreign actor gets a real human supporting their side. It's a shadow economy.

😮When did Jeffrey Dean Morgan start doing KZbin? 😂

While I'm absolutely no fan of Justin Trudeau, I've always thought that people who call him Trudope or Turdeau, sound like a bunch of tools. Turns out I may have been more right than I could have imagined.

You dont know how ai works. Trying to make it generate pictures of biden is completely dependant on the training daya. Also its ironic the video is about misinformation and you talk about elon having contact with Putin.

Yo I swear he just hit us with the Mr. Frisby throwback from the twilight zone.

hope you read all the comments

One are not real but the others is?

Outstanding. Not new for me, but definitely new to most viewers - and this news would have been timely if it appeared before the election. Alas, it is too late to awaken anyone from the slumbers of the dog of ma. You have a future in reporting if you want it, man. Your obsession with tracking down horrifying facts is much needed in our fucked-up, dumbed-down society.

Thanks so much for sharing. 😉👌🏻

Great video, but given how many articles from Newsweek that I saw on Reddit that had very left-leaning and very sensationalist or otherwise misleading headlines, I find it almost laughable that Grounds News classifies that them as "Highly factuality" and "Center" leaning... And I say that as someone who exclusively votes blue. Are the labels intended to describe the publication, or simply the individual article?

kzbin.info/www/bejne/q53ZXmWrhtOXsLcsi=1CzvdfhdhCqDWRn_ how does These politician see in time cff

Dude, wtf, you are the first guy from “Western KZbin” who really started to dig in from the proper side.

And now we know how a democracy dies.

I'm sorry to inform you but you don't really know the limits of any technology, including AI. Have you considered the possibility that you are a narcissistic moron that posts unverified claims?

Next look into Palantir.

also you lied about deleting your twitter.

I also keep hearing this brrppt noise its really weird. My whole family can hear it to not just me

Israel also operates massive bot farms to pump out their disinformation but for some reason people act like russia is unique. Russia's influence in USA politics is a drop in the bucket compared to Israel.

Proudly taking the stance that you will ignore your OWN USER'S REPORTS about CSAM is maybe one of the most evil things I've ever heard of, ever. wtaf???

Blocking critics eh?

blocking critics, eh?

This doofus is discovering what Jack Dorsey did to Trump in 2020.

Wow, imagine spending so much time on something and still being so incredibly wrong about it.