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noname120yesterday at 3:35 PM3 repliesview on HN

I’ve never heard a single time social media companies say that social media would spread democracy. Sounds like a straw man to me


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SauciestGNUyesterday at 4:17 PM

It was a fairly common narrative during the Arab Spring, when the technology was still relatively novel.

andrepdyesterday at 5:55 PM

Arab Spring and the Obama campaign. I know, it seems a lifetime ago...

lostloginyesterday at 5:10 PM

It’s quite the contrast when you look at Twitter then and X now.