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#Tag

"When you write for Fascintern media, you are choosing to publish with them. When you post on X you are basically pitching a story to Der Stürmer. You are not speaking to anyone that they don't want you speaking to. You're not being courageous; you're collaborating. You're associating your name with that outlet. And you're making them money."

@robin, 2025

https://berjon.com/fascintern-media/

This pieces clearly articulates thoughts I've been pulling at the edges of for years

#SocialMedia #Fascintern #X

Robin Berjon

Fascintern Media

We are facing a coordinated international fascist movement that works with explicit backing from Moscow, Washington, and tech monopolies, and is propagating itself through its own media apparatus. Yet people who claim to side with democracy keep doing work to support Fascintern media because they misunderstand how it works. This needs to change.

Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied · 4 days ago

"This isn’t brainwashing - people don’t have to internalize this or that aspect of what social media presents to them, radically changing their beliefs and their sense of who they are. That sometimes happens, but likely far more rarely than we think. The more important change is to our beliefs about what other people think, which we perpetually update based on social observation."

#HenryFarrell, 2025

https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getting-the-social-media-crisis

ie 'nudging'. You read this piece @pluralistic?

We're getting the social media crisis wrong

The bigger problem isn't disinformation. It's degraded democratic publics

Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz · 4 days ago

"The fundamental problem, as I see it, is not that social media misinforms individuals about what is true or untrue but that it creates publics with malformed collective understandings.”

#HenryFarrell, 2025