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[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

https://news-pravda.com/ posts multiple stories every minute, as far as I can tell just at all times. Something like this seems fairly likely.

[–] Lugh@futurology.today 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

The Russian propaganda seems much more effective with the right-wing people. Is that an AI thing, or are they more susceptible for other reasons?

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

They're more susceptible. There was a study a while back that showed Republican's amigdila(brain fear center) are larger on average. Advertising also notice they're guillible long ago. Fox new ad space hosts cons like my pillow, reverse mortgages and trump merch because they'll buy it.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago

they fall for crypto scams, and scams in general all the time too.

[–] L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

Sounds to me like someone just figured out their next research project.

[–] SchizoDenji@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

I know this might sound like an enlightened centrist take, but people hear what they want to hear on social media. Be it left or right.

Social media curation algorithms are geared towards driving maximum engagement and thus, echo chambers are formed.

Then, it is very easy to feed them propoganda via these chambers.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

on reddit they always cofuse it with the ukranian version of the news too, as propaganda, im sure russia knows this and isnt by accident.

on youtube, i assume murdoch also controls the "australian sky news channel" too, which sounds like UK's sky news.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah. This is absolutely on purpose. What’s that hard-hitting documentary about the 2014 revolution called, it’s definitely “Ukraine on Fire” right?

[–] HeavyRaptor@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 months ago

Finally we know what AI is truly useful for

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

As a final step, the authors conducted a survey of 880 American adults recruited through the online survey platform Prolific and found that the content in the post-adoption period maintained the same level of persuasiveness as the pre-AI period. According to the authors, immediate action should be taken to mitigate the influence of AI-assisted propaganda campaigns.

[–] alykanas@slrpnk.net -1 points 4 months ago

America just elected Donald trump for a second time and they are worried about Russian propaganda

How many times do you need to hit yourself on the head with mallet in order to believe Russian propaganda is the problem ?