r/technology • u/Regular_Eggplant_248 • Jul 21 '25

Social Media YouTube wipes out thousands of propaganda channels linked to China, Russia, others

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/21/youtube-channels-propaganda-china-russia.html
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u/Nokomis34 Jul 22 '25

I was just talking with my wife how if we managed to remove all the bots from social media things would change almost immediately.

But this is what I've been talking about when I say we've been in the middle of WW3 for years, just the weapon is information (or misinformation if you will) instead of bombs. And so far the war has been pretty one sided. It's time we at least defend ourselves, much less start fighting back.

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u/SoFetchBetch Jul 22 '25

Yes! Media literacy needs to become trendy.

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u/Lazerus42 Jul 22 '25

Yes! Media literacy needs to become trendy.

And then hopefully media too...

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u/ScarryShawnBishh Jul 22 '25

Both of you are on the money. I don’t think people are as dumb as they make the selves out to be.

We all can obviously read so we can bully, peer pressure, and shame each other into knowing how communicate to each other.

But not literally like they did 20+ years ago more like using that as a reason to explain that it is important to them

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u/RedditIsDeadMoveOn Jul 22 '25

What time do you want to meet for your corrective bullying?

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u/ScarryShawnBishh Jul 22 '25

I take my tongue lashings for being wrong with pride

Typically I try to only punch up but sometimes my aim is not the best 😅