RE: Is Steemit becoming a haven for conspiracy theorists?
"Has anyone else noticed this?"
Yes.
"Anyone else concerned?"
A lot of people are. But me? Not even a little.
Dude. I came to this platform knowing about this.... Don't worry.
You gotta have faith that the vast majority of people see these freaks as just as crazy as you do. The best defence against insane theories like this stuff is to let people see their ideas.
As to 'combating' this phenomenon: don't.
- You can't convince them that reality is... real. You're wasting your time and energy.
- They can't convince anyone of anything. The only people who'll believe them are already insane.
- Fighting them gives them strength. The less you resist, the more they weaken.
- Most importantly: the antisocial tendencies that make them so annoying get turned on each other the more you leave them alone.
"The idea of Steemit filling up with anti-vaxxers and climate-change deniers who continuously feed off/upvote/resteem each other is unnerving to say the least."
Think of it this way: are you really complaining that a bunch of antisocial wierdos with insane theories are quarantining themselves away from society? That sounds like a problem that's solving itself.
Perhaps you are right...maybe I shouldn't freak out. They are just so tenacious and I hate to see their filth monetized 😭.
On the plus side it's pretty damned funny. A lot of their followers are just laughing at them. I know that's why I follow Alex Jones!
Yes Jones is always good for a laugh
I am afraid of what happened on twitter http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-found-more-russian-bots-trump-interacted-with-many-2018-1 with more than 50,000 bots spreading disinformation run by a government. Is there a system in place on steemit that would detect this sort of rebroadcasting?
But Steemit is different than Twitter.
One one thing that would slow them down is that it takes a lot of time to build up enough Steem to actually post lots of comments or posts.
People are more active here and I think they would find a way to counter the bots.
I'm not sure I agree. I think the risk of censorship far outweighs the risk posed by these... 'people'. Hell, I might even go so far as to say the purpose of this censorship isn't to crack down on them, it's to crack down on US.
That's going to be the effect either way. I recommend checking out Jimmy Dore or Kyle Kalinsky's videos on this phenomenon. A queer tendency is these measures tend to end up targeting the far left (RE: anyone left of Hitler) more than their intended targets...
Oh wait a second... I made a mistake here... You're concerned about the bots, not twitter??!
No. Nonononono. Dude. No. That's fake news.
There's been a concentrated siege on new media by the oligarchs to put up barriers in new media to prevent people from seeing the obvious.
"50,000 bots spreading disinformation run by a government."
Simply put:
Don't worry about this, it's literally 'fake news' as the right says. Hillary and Peter Douche are behind these measures, that should say enough.
I cannot stress enough how this is not a problem, and the 'solution' is literally worse than the problem could ever be, I beg you to reconsider.