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Aaron Sorkin Blames Facebook for Jan. 6 and He's Trying to Write a 'Social Network' Sequel About It
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Facebook, but also and really actually reddit.
thedonald was a pipeline for converting disenfranchised white males into white nationalists and was super effective.
I’d blame Facebook more than Reddit, but really a lot of the blame lies with 8chan(kun) and the Qanon BS. Of course, this Q bs festered and spread on Facebook.
And, of course, at the time Twitter was Trump’s main bull horn, so that was a major driver as well.
By the time Jan 6 happened, TheDonald was long gone from Reddit.
The_Donald was banned but its community of festering pustules was not at all gone from Reddit- they are all still there and some even here.
I'm not discounting those locations 💯, but the MAGA cult movement 100% had it's origins on Reddit in a turf war between progressives and the alt right. I was there. I watched the entire thing happen, how it folded, when the bots appeared, and on and on.
I believe church's and the prosperity doctrine had a role.