Black people across US receive racist text messages after Trump’s win
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Now wait until you hear what happened with 23andMe.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/23andme-user-data-targeting-ashkenazi-jews-leaked-online-rcna119324
And I'm both amazed and quite worried that nothing has come of it yet.
Yet. Give them time, they'll need to figure out where it can be best integrated into Project 2025.
That's why I'm worried.
Given the state of data harvesting I imagine purchasing a list of phone numbers associated with a given demographic is trivial.
Google has that list, and it's for sale. Regardless if you tell them, they know.
Google doesn't sell their private data collection. They use it to target ads so it's the most valuable thing they have (or as they would call it their "unfair advantage"), so selling it directly is out of question. There are multiple data brokers that also have very comprehensive lists that will happily sell it to anyone.
They sell the targeting, from there it's simple for the advertisers to compile the list with the tracking cookies left behind.
You're gonna lose your mind when you hear about the census office. This last census also mandated you disclose your sexual preferences and gender identity. They have a list of black and brown people, LGBTQ+ people, and trans people. 😬
They absolutely did not mandate that.
Seriously? You're going to conflate government census data with a hate list?
Is that sarcasm or does it really need to be explained to you how a tyrannical government would use that data for hate?
The problem is that you're putting the entirety of the government and all the departments into a singular "they". There may be a point where separation fails, but you're already treating it like Vance has unrestricted access to everything.
Anything and everything is now one Official Act and Supreme Court ruling away.
I think you need to learn more about fascism, preferably within the next two months.
I just said there may be a point where separation fails.
Yes, and it was last Tuesday.
I didn't know there were fascists on here unaware that they were fascists
That data in the wrong hands...
Not that hard to buy people's data these days.
You could get a highschool kid to build this with available data.
Nothing to hide nothing to fear. Till suddenly u got so thing to hide. I hate to say it but i fucking told you so.
No kidding. When I heard about this I asked how the fuck do they even know it's a black person.
This should be required reading before being allowed on lemmy.
Are there any ways we can fight this? In my head "guerilla counter psyops" sounds really cool...
But like is the move to ignore? Point out what they're doing? Verbal judo? Report and move on?
Computers to the rescue. AI succinctification:
Here's a distilled version of the article:
Russian Psyops: Poisoning Online Communities
Russia has developed an effective online tactics game, using cheap and widespread methods to manipulate public opinion and sow discord. Their goal is to create an environment where no online space feels safe or trustworthy.
Tactics:
Consequences:
The Threat:
Russia's online psyops campaign is a real and significant threat to global democracy and community cohesion. By recognizing this threat and taking steps to mitigate its effects, we can work towards preserving the integrity and safety of online spaces.
Although that may be effective to some, that format is too dry and science-y to tap into the people who need to be reached.
We need the power of a human being's impassioned words, presented in the context of a natural conversation, converted into a meme-able format. The simplest way would be to copy/paste the original comment and start sharing it on other platforms. If there is a way to make the message more succinct, without losing that crucial human touch that inspires people to relate to the message, that would be ideal.
Lemmy is still fine if you block hexbear, grad, and .ml. .ee also gets infested sometimes but the mods do their best.
Trump winning is also Putin's long term game, for all we know
Not even in question.
Oh that's what I meant - a step in his long term plan, not the ultimate goal, of course
It's true.
The question is how do we look after our brothers/sisters?
I don't care who's sending it, it's not ok.
Trump is getting rid of that democracy problem
The south is celebrating, they're finally going to get justice for daring elect a black man over them.
Again
No, he didn't finish the job the first time.
This time they're drooling.
The very first place everybody's minds need to go here is: was it russia
Yeah it could be maga, it wouldn't be surprising. Which russia knows. And is 100% going to try to exploit.
This should be the default assumption, until proven otherwise.
FBI Link: https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/fbi-statement-on-offensive-and-racist-text-messages
Website scheduled for deactivation on January 21, 2025.
Where do you see that?
Sorry. I should’ve tagged for sarcasm.
Trump will be sworn in on January 20th.
... and if not in the second term, we'll change the term limits to enable us to best follow this up.
What the FBI isn’t saying is they’re the ones who gave the suspects the list.
coincidence? hell no!
Yes everyone this year got insane amounts of text messages. I think they may have been part of voter fraud schemes.
Also anyone see that Joe Rogan asserts Elon Musk had an app with election results before anyone else? https://grabien.com/story.php?id=499986