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Re:J.G. Ballard predicted the rise of social media (2016) by notahacker on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @03:27PM (#40290422)
By 2016, we'd realised that the way to influence people with anonymous political commentary was to do the exact opposite of producing detailed, well-reasoned arguments...
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Re:J.G. Ballard predicted the rise of social media (2016) by MichaelZuo on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @12:36AM (#40294374)
Were there "detailed, well-reasoned arguments" before?

Just looking at political commentary from the 80s and 90s, it's mostly nonsense.

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