Randahl FinkFeb 23

In the age of disinformation, this is the most important episode of Last Week Tonight yet.

John Oliver uncovers how Elon Musk took over Twitter and began funding accounts who spread disinformation, creating movements that cause serious trouble in the real world based on Twitter falsehoods — even causing the Trump regime to launch security operations based on conspiracy theories invented by random Twitter users.

https://youtu.be/p7ZG_xWYLzI?si=h_sQbBJzmI7rTqXF

Twitter: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Twitter USED to have a reasonable API, which made it a fucking goldmine of raw data about disinformation campaigns and bot swarms. Last private social media platform to do it, afaik.

Now I guess we've got to just guess.

Feb 23 at 7:47pmWeb