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Pro-Indy accounts go dark after Israeli strikes (ukdefencejournal.org.uk)
3 points by Manheim 3 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


This incident should be something to think about the next time we look to social media in general, and X in particular, to measure the public opinion.


If you are using X to conduct political discourse, you are the internet equivalent of Bobby Boucher riding his lawnmower to the pep rally. There hasn't been a serious microblogging social movement since what, 2018?




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