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Colin M. Henry

@henryhenryhenry.com wrld.org
political scientist @ University of Zürich

platforms, political violence, social media, computing

research & writing:
henryhenryhenry.com

sometimes land of enchantment, sometimes land of Helvetia
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Colin M. Henry 2h

the conclude, i have no choice but to endorse a weak version of Stancil Thought on this and other matters -- info has never been weirder!

Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 2h

like, i'm absolutely fascinated by this kind of observation. you have platform owners, all right-wing billionaires, pursuing a variety of degrees of open info manipulation strategies on their platforms, and none of it was enough to shift concrete political outcomes.

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Colin M. Henry 2h

Wouldn't that be lovely!

I have opinions. @eurobubba.com · 2h

Hypothesis: society is learning to cope appropriately with social media propaganda channels.

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Colin M. Henry 2h

like, i'm absolutely fascinated by this kind of observation. you have platform owners, all right-wing billionaires, pursuing a variety of degrees of open info manipulation strategies on their platforms, and none of it was enough to shift concrete political outcomes.

Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 2h

as with data center backlash, I think there’s a very interesting reckoning coming that, between the highly consolidated & sclerotic info environment and huge sums of money spent, US oligarchs couldn’t effectively use big platforms to tilt public opinion

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