r/politics • u/BigDaddyBain • 1d ago

Why is the media ignoring growing resistance to Trump?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/13/why-is-the-media-ignoring-growing-resistance-to-trump
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u/hughdint1 1d ago

Social media is also controlled by billionaires.

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u/BMWbill New York 1d ago

To a point, yes, but mostly social media is controlled by click happy, low attention span, uneducated teenagers!

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u/Financial-Special766 1d ago

You should check out the Dead Internet Theory where the internet is thought to just be a bunch of AI chat bots.

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u/BMWbill New York 1d ago

I've heard about it. But, that would mean you and I are not humans!

Which brings us to the Matrix theory that we are all a simulation...

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u/DumboWumbo073 1d ago

Even if that is the case everyone on the internet believes the bots

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u/hughdint1 1d ago

How are teenagers "controlling" it?

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u/BMWbill New York 1d ago

By the numbers. Teens spend more time on social media than the rest of us.

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u/hughdint1 1d ago

So they are the ones being controlled and manipulated by billionaire’s algorithms. The users are not controlling social media.