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/epidemicsaints Jul 22 '25

Millions. The people who listen do not tend to have broad friend groups.

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u/Educational-Cat2133 Jul 22 '25

Weird how I don't have good social support/broad friend groups and absolutely loathe Tim Pool/his ilk, I do not believe isolation is an excuse, but it all starts there, and especially for men (who, imo, are much more vulnerable to isolation).

People completely ignore how well the right wing has captured sad, sackless man babies, but they've basically created purpose for these idiots, and that is why it's so hard to pull them back off the group think.

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u/epidemicsaints Jul 22 '25

And they have diversified as well. 15 years ago you had to be much older and a more specfic type of person to be captured into the audience of Bill O'Reilly or Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck. Now there is someone for everybody, and they get their attention much younger.

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u/Educational-Cat2133 Jul 22 '25

Yeah that's probably the part I have the hardest time with, and what most surprised me in the last election on demographic splits.

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u/meteorprime Jul 22 '25

I knew the Democrats were fucked going in the last election because there’s like 100 different Republican podcasts of every shape and size and very few for the Democrats.

That just screams that somebody has a bigger audience.

And then Republicans got to vote for Trump and Democrats were only allowed to vote for Kamala. Someone they already rejected in the primary.