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   ⏩︎VOTE⏪︎ ᶜʸⁿⁱᶜⁱˢᵐ⁼ᵃᶜᶜᵉᵖᵗᵃⁿᶜᵉ (Ben Royce) (benroyce@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 22:24:06 JST ⏩︎VOTE⏪︎ ᶜʸⁿⁱᶜⁱˢᵐ⁼ᵃᶜᶜᵉᵖᵗᵃⁿᶜᵉ (Ben Royce)

   Many factors why #Trump won

   The most crucial piece is that #socialmedia is the center of all attention

   Not unique to the #USA

   Example:

   "#FarRight #candidate takes shock lead in #Romania presidential #election"

   https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9dlw5pq967o

   #Georgescu is anti-#NATO, anti-#EU and admires #Putin

   He joined in August in 8th place. He is now in 1st

   Why?

   Social media saturation

   Forget #cable, forget the #press: it's dead #media

   Social media is killing #Democracy

   This is now our greatest struggle

   • Robert Link repeated this.
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     Ben Todd (monkeyben@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Nov-2024 09:18:33 JST Ben Todd

     in reply to

     • Democracy Matters :verified:

     @benroyce

     Correction, commercial social media is killing democracy: Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg etc al.

     @DemocracyMattersALot