I notice a large number of ragebait-y political communities being spun up by new users with thousands of posts & ai profile header photos. I notice comment sections are more acrimonious, and foreign disinfo talking points are circulating a lot more prolifically than before the US election started ramping up.

Anyone else notice this? Any idea on how to combat it on this platform? Are there any communities built around creating block lists of obvious troll/ai/disinfo accounts & communities?

  • Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    3 months ago

    Honestly just filtering out the words “Trump” and “Elon” would get rid of about 95% of it all.

    Gotta hand it to the news SEO teams, they know what makes effective clickbait.