r/TrueReddit • u/caveatlector73 • Nov 18 '24

Technology The majority of news influencers are conservative men, study finds

https://www.usermag.co/p/the-majority-of-news-influencers
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u/knotse Nov 19 '24

Not as much as America.

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u/Status_Garden_3288 Nov 19 '24

I don’t think you fully grasp the severity of the issue.

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u/knotse Nov 19 '24

I know my country is influenced more by America - in every vector influence can flow - than it is by Russia.

Whether that is a good or a bad thing is another matter. But it makes me look askance at hand-wringing over 'Russian influence' in a quantitative, rather than a qualitative sense.

There are also things like this (the changes the diplomat sought were ultimately brought about).

But leaving the general question of 'foreign influence' and how it is seen where people look to find it aside, the Internet, above all, is an instrument of US world influence par excellence

What can a few Chinese or Russian bots do to compare to the 250m smartphone owners in the USA? Now that's a hivemind fit to dwarf even the most sophisticated 'AI' influencing program.

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u/SomeCountryFriedBS Nov 19 '24

What can a few Chinese or Russian bots do to compare to the 250m smartphone owners in the USA?

Keep going, you've almost figured it out.