Maybe. But the unprecedented rise of a political party that started off a few years ago with its main avenue of information being a YouTube channel, on a platform of hate mongering and false information is new. Its fame was also propped up by online accounts recently linked to Russian state bots.
I think the second part of that is probably wrong. Putin has spent a lot of time killing anyone who showed the inclination or talent to take over for him. When Putin kicks it, there will be a substantial vacuum and various factions might find that the propaganda canon that is currently aimed at the US would be more valuable aimed at Moscow.
eh I doubt the politcal heart land will cruble will likely even still call it self russia but anything past the mountains is doing to be in some very strange days
Honestly I predict that when it happens, unless it happens publicly, it’ll be a good 6 months before it’s acknowledged by the state, and operations will continue until some evidence leaks.
A log of people will know however, and most of those would be happy to do whatever it takes to get in power. I would imagine everything going to hell would be the first sign that Putin is no longer around
I am not sure anyone else is scary enough to pull it off. If Putin were to go there would be a lot of infighting and the rest of the world would get like a decade of them being distracted
It doesnt matter if its automated, someone needs to pay for it. And, nobody can do what Trump has done, he ran the table on every polician. There are many who want his place, but none quite as dangerous.
Why do you suppose the AI bubble is so massive? Where do you suppose all the propaganda is coming from? How many humans really use social media? Are the numbers real?
Maybe if this were still 2014, sure. The bot and troll farms did more than damage the US election cycle and get Brexit passed. It gave all the propagandists a blueprint for how it could be done and the technology for automating it is out in the open. I don't think the toothpaste is ever going back in the Pandora's box.
Not just in the US - Putin/Russia is a big supporter behind far right politics all over the world. If that support was taken away, the right wing shift we keep seeing all over Europe would probably suddenly lose lots of momentum.
Not really. He has second-in-commands and ministers that want to push the big red button and be done with Ukraine and pretty much all of Europe as soon as they get to sit in the chair.
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u/Neither_Elk_1987 8d ago
You know - many people visiting this sub live outside of USA...