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Extremist Militias Are Coordinating in More Than 100 Facebook Groups (www.wired.com)
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Heads up everyone. Delete your accounts as soon as possible. Zuck has been fallen.

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[โ€“] supersolid_snake@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Genuine question: does it invent fascists ("no real interactions") or amplify fascists?

[โ€“] trashxeos@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 week ago

A bit of both. Fascist rhetoric boosts engagement, which causes the algorithm to push that harder, which exposes the next group to a view just outside of their own Overton Window, and the discourse ratchets further towards fascism. At least, that was what I experienced on the platform, but I haven't used it actively since 2020 so I could be out of date now.