I've been warning about this for a long time. The longterm goal of hostile, state- and corporate-sponsored disinformation purveyors has been to weaponize human beings against each other -- and to get them to kill themselves when they're no longer useful.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/02/kiwi-farms-die-drop-cloudflare-chandler-trolls/

The website that wants you to kill yourself—and won't die

How the trolls on Kiwi Farms hounded people to commit suicide and created the online culture we have today.

Mother Jones

@brooklynmarie

Same as it ever was. This has been happening as long as there are people with more who want to keep the people with less from sharing in their spoils.

I'm talking millennia here. This isn't something new.

The difference these days is the speed of communication. We focus too much on the speed of disinformation while ignoring the opposite is true.

My head hurts from banging it against the wall.

@bluerootsradio You're wrong. This is new and unprecedented, thanks to, yes, that same speed.

@brooklynmarie

No I'm not, you just don't agree with me. I won't say you're wrong, but I will say you're looking at the problem with tunnel vision and blinders. Of course this instance is "new" but it's history rhyming with the past. #haveagreatweekend