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"You are not dealing with a few thousand trolls."

In my own experience, it's the trolls that are rather confounding.

Go to any twitter poster with even a slightly political bent. Look for the first shitty person. Look at their posting history. It'll nearly always be 100 post/day of shittiness telling you just what you need to hear. Unless the evil Russians are extremely clever, it all appears to be grassroots poor behavior.

I guess you can view social media as a giant laboratory showing the behavior of people when they are not nose-to-nose with you in a bar. It's all super disappointing.

Maybe there's a place for highly curated social media.



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