A key lever in the extreme right propaganda is selling the idea that these views are widely held by the ‘silent majority’, or just ‘common sense’. Those view counts aren’t real. Look at how many people actually show up to the real-life events compared with the noise you see online. The people who do show up always look surprised by how outnumbered they are by counter-protesters.

Echo chambers like GB news want viewers to simultaneously feel weak and insecure whilst offering a false avenue to empowerment. Engaging with their material will make their influence seem much larger than it is.

I wouldn’t waste your time on those platforms. You would have a much bigger impact by helping your local community, talking to real people about real problems and helping to fix them. People turn to fascism out of desperation that their shit lives are never going to change unless they force that change.

The more people in a space, whether that’s online or IRL, the more important moderation/regulation becomes

It’s one of the big reasons why urban city-dwellers and rural people often have very different politics

Yes, genuinely frightening how quickly AI was adopted for weapon targeting systems.

When those Iranian schoolgirls were slaughtered by the United States, I couldn’t help but assume that the morons setting the parameters just plugged in a load of photos of military bases to see what would happen.

We could live in a world in which machine learning is used by the military to exercise caution and protect civilians from human error and emotional reasoning, but instead it magnifies that hubris to devastating effect - even sheltering those responsible! “It was the all-knowing computer, how was I supposed to know?”

No need to link to Orbán’s site, as the original paper is open-access https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WNL.0000000000218076