• GardenGeek@europe.pub
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    18 hours ago

    I can only repeat myself: All social media platforms currently belong to dictatorships and their supporters.

    “What happened that the right suddenly became so powerful?”

    Trump happened. Meta, X, and others programmed their algorithms with just a few clicks to push right-wing narratives.

    Since a large portion of the Western population gets its news from these platforms and spends a lot of time there, the rise of the right is no surprise—it doesn’t really need any explanation.

    • bedwyr@piefed.ca
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      10 hours ago

      There is a lot more to explain, this didn’t start with the president, and it doesn’t end with him. This is a 50 year conspiracy birthed by the Business Roundtable of 1971, project 2025 was just the latest iteration of that.