#dictatorships — Public Fediverse posts
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Opinion | Study confirms what many suspected: the 2024 election was rigged
Written by Thom Hartmann, July 10, 2026
"It sure looks like #TechBillionaires and foreign #dictatorships gave us Trump in 2024. This is as bad as the massive #RussianBot presence on #Facebook and #Twitter back in 2016, which Robert Mueller documented gave Trump the presidency that time.
"A peer-reviewed study released Thursday in Nature, the world’s most prestigious scientific journal, has finally put hard numbers to what a lot of us suspected the moment the 2024 election was called for Trump (and Republicans in Congress) by the big networks: the algorithms that control our largest #SocialMedia platforms intentionally and explicitly tilted the playing field, and they tilted it for Donald #Trump and the #GOP.
"Researchers at New York University Abu Dhabi created hundreds of 'sock puppet' #TikTok accounts in New York, Texas, and Georgia (via VPN), uploaded to them either pro-Democratic or pro-Republican videos to show their political leanings, and then watched what TikTok’s algorithm fed back to them every day over the 27 weeks leading up to #ElectionDay.
"Across more than 280,000 recommendations, Republican-seeded accounts received about 11.5 percent more 'party-aligned content' than their Democratic counterparts, while the pro-Democratic accounts were force-fed 7.5 percent more attacks from the other side. As Professor Talal Rahwan put it:
'The algorithm wasn’t just giving people what they want; it was giving one side more of what the other side says about them.'"The pro-#rightwing bias was even more dramatic when researchers looked at how the candidates’ own accounts did. Candidate Trump’s official TikTok videos were pushed to Democratic-leaning users 27 percent of the time, while #KamalaHarris’s videos only reached Republican-leaning users just 15.3 percent of the time.
"Translation: Leading up to the 2024 election, TikTok was working overtime to expose Democrats and lefties to MAGA’s most persuasive messaging, all while shielding rightwingers, independents, and Republican voters from Harris’s voice."
Source:
xhttps://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/election-rigged-2024Archived version:
https://archive.ph/2q8gO#USPol #USElections #TechBros #TechBroFascism #RiggedElections #Technofascism #Oligarchy #Technogarchy
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Comparison to Hitler, Mao, Stalin? Trump says: ‘Sounds good to me!’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/19/trump-hitler-mao-stalin
#Resist #protest #Authoritarianism #Fascism #Dictatorships #Nazism #news #Trump #Hitler #maozedong #mao #Stalin -
📕 O livro "Memórias Dissidentes. Repressão e resistências quotidianas de homossexuais e lésbicas nas ditaduras ibéricas" é o resultado da investigação de doutoramento de Raquel Afonso, cuja investigação foi desenvolvida no IHC.
#Histodons #Anthropodons #SocialHistory #QueerHistory #LGBTQIA #Dictatorships #IberianPeninsula #Portugal #Spain #España #HistóriaSocial #Ditaduras #Antropologia #MastoLivros
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@samreciter #australia could be a 2nd #saudiarabia but their #government is even MORE corrupt than most #dictatorships :(
also yes #australia is almost a #colony of #china -
Why Dictatorships Build The Same (hint: it's about control and suppressing dissent)
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Prominent #pro-Kremlin #blogger known for his aggressive attacks on #Russia’s opposition abruptly turned against #Putin with series of scathing critiques
A day later, he was admitted to #psychiatric #hospital
Ilya #Remeslo, built #blog targeting late opposition leader #Navalny
His sudden reversal, & speed he disappeared, has drawn intense attention in Russia’s tightly controlled media
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Actual #democracy is about voting on issues, not voting on people.
Western "democracy" is about voting on people, not voting on issues.
From that perspective, westerners deem #socialist states as #authoritarian #dictatorships.
All while citizens of those states have 10 times more power than any western citizen.
Are you waking up yet?
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How do the machinery of war and political violence relate to the production of power relations and subjectivity that we generally refer to as #authoritarianism?
This question is the staring point for the workshop promoted by #STEXEU on 10 March, with Charalambos Minasidis and Fernando Jiménez Herrera.
ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/wars-violence-authoritarianism/
#Histodons #PoliticalHistory #War #PolticalViolence #Dictatorships #HistóriaPolítica #Guerra #ViolênciaPolítica #Ditaduras #Autoritarismo
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An extension of his administration: how #Trump’s resorts became a proxy for access and power
Traditionally, #presidents have #divested from their business interests before assuming office. Jimmy Carter famously put his peanut farm into a blind trust to avoid #conflict of interest #violations while serving as president.
But Trump has embraced his suite of luxury resorts and golf clubs as an executive asset.
#authoritarian #tyrants #ComradeKrasnov #greed #USThreats
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I'm sorry, but anyone who thought #Bezos bought #WaPo to control the news and not to destroy it from the inside (it's chump change for him) so there is no news being reported, really REALLY hasn't been paying attention.
It's how #dictatorships work.
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@EUCommission Can you not give #ICE and #DHS in #USA access to our data? Many #EU members lived in #dictatorships under mass surveillance. Do we share data with #Iran or #Russia? You want to give confidential data of #EU citizens to a regime that behaves openly hostile to our values, member states and our citizens? #NoToFascism #notoESBP
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Captain of Seized Tanker Rushed Out of #UK by #USCG Ahead of Court Hearing
#US had said vessel was brought to #Scotland to be resupplied [US lied]
Lawyer for wife of captain asserted the US has #abducted the crewmembers, raising serious constitutional and legal concerns
Earlier they complained #Scottish authorities had not acted to protect the #crew & let US remove the crew without observing the laws
#tyrants #dictatorships #USAggression #InternationalLaw #BoycottUSA
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⚠️ Today is the last day to submit applications for the position of Junior Researcher to join the #STEXEU project!
🇩🇪 The researcher will be responsible for the German case study, i.e., conducting historical research on #authoritarianism and the crisis of #democracy in #Germany in the years 1900–1939.
👉 https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/jr-stexeu-de-2026/
#Histodons #EU_Funded #ERC #ERCStG #EUfunded #Dictatorships #StatesOfException #HistoryJobs #ScienceJobs #PoliticalHistory #SocialHistory #MastoJobs #EUFunded
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📰 Luís M. Faria publicou uma crítica ao livro “Relações Perigosas”, de Irene Flunser Pimentel, no Expresso, onde conclui que a obra "acaba por ser tanto uma boa exploração do seu tema como, por implicação, uma resenha geopolítica de Portugal, de 1945 ao 25 de Abril e período imediatamente subsequente." 5 ⭐️
#Histodons #MastoLivos #Espionagem #EstadoNovo #ServiçosSecretos #PIDE #Dictatorships #PoliticalPolice #SecretPolice #Intelligence
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Donald Trump is borrowing a strategy from authoritarian regimes to #intimidate potential critics and #discourage them from speaking out, according to a senator under investigation by his administration.
#Elissa #Slotkin, a Democrat from Michigan, faces questioning after she organised and appeared in a #video with other Democrats imploring military service members to #refuse “#illegal #orders”.
Fellow senator #Mark #Kelly and three Democrats from the House of Representatives are also being investigated.
To Slotkin, a former analyst with the Central Intelligence Agency ( #CIA ), it is a deliberate effort to chill free speech that rhymes with her experience of #dictatorships around the world.
“They’re now using a well-worn playbook that employs #physical intimidation and #legal intimidation to get,
A, you to shut up, and
B, for other people thinking of criticising the president on such issues to be dissuaded from doing so,”
she told the Guardian in a phone interview.“It’s absolutely a strategy well used in other countries and other authoritarian governments.
As a CIA officer I’ve served in places like this,
I’ve studied places like this my entire life,
and Trump is sadly using that #playbook in the United States right now.”Now 49, Slotkin completed three tours in Iraq with the US military before moving into national security roles at the Pentagon and White House under presidents George W Bush and Barack Obama.
In 2018 she turned to electoral politics, winning a long-held Republican seat in #Michigan and helping Democrats reclaim control of the House.
She secured re-election in 2020 and 2022, campaigning on issues such as access to affordable healthcare and efforts to bring manufacturing back to her home state.
Her ascent continued in 2024 when she won an open Senate seat despite Trump carrying Michigan in the presidential election.
Last year she delivered the Democrats’ rebuttal to Trump’s joint congressional address.
Then in November she was among six congressional Democrats,
all with military or intelligence backgrounds,
who in a 90-second video cited the "Uniform Code of Military Justice"
and said no one has to carry out orders that violate the law or constitution.#Trump branded the video message “treasonous” and amplified a social media post suggesting that the six Democrats be #hanged.
Defence secretary Pete #Hegseth is attempting to #retroactively #demote Kelly,
a former navy pilot and astronaut,
from his retired rank of captain.👏The Arizona senator is suing Hegseth to block those proceedings,
calling them an unconstitutional act of retribution.Meanwhile US attorney #Jeanine #Pirro, the justice department’s chief prosecutor in Washington, has requested an interview with Slotkin.
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📣 #STEXEU is hiring an early-career researcher!
The selected candidate will join the project team, led by Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez, and focus on historical research on authoritarianism, states of exception, and the crisis of democracy in #Germany in the years 1900-1939.
👉 https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/jr-stexeu-de-2026/
#Histodons #EU_Funded #ERC #ERCStG #EUfunded #Dictatorships #Authoritarianism #StatesOfException #HistoryJobs #ScienceJobs #PoliticalHistory #SocialHistory #MastoJobs
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Hedges Report: America the Rogue State
https://consortiumnews.com/2026/01/07/hedges-report-america-the-rogue-state/
Iraqis, a million of whom were killed during the U.S. war and occupation, know what comes next for Venezuela. The reigning gangsters will use the threat of death and destruction to procure subservience. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost The ruling class of…
#Politics #AmericanEmpire #ClimateChange #Commentary #FreeSpeech #HumanRights #Media #TrumpAdministration #U.s. #U.s.Congress #U.s.JusticeDept. #U.s.SupremeCourrt #Venezuela #BlackOps #C.i.a. #CiliaFlores #Democracy #DemocraticParty #Dictatorships #DrugEnforcementAdministration(dea) #F.b.i. #HonduranPresidentJuanOrlandoHernández #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement(ice) #MayorZohranMamdani #Palantir #PoliceState #PresidentDonaldTrump #VenezuelanPresidentNicolásMaduro -
A short modern history of the US, Venezuela, greed, and corruption, produced 2025-12-18 by #unlearn16
https://www.tiktok.com/@unlearn16/video/7585319393010224402
#Venezuela #UnitedStates #oil #money #dictatorships #corporations #capitalism #theft -
So you're a fan of #Israel? Name all the #Latin #American #dictatorships implanted and supported by the #UnitedStates during Plan Condor, which it supported by acting as an arms dealer.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@peterbroks/115691075299030591
#Democracies do not need more #racism.
Democracies need more #nukes in order to defend #humanrights from attacks of #racist #dictatorships which already have nukes.
#SlavaUkraini
#EU
#europa
#France
#Poland
#UK
#Sweden
#Norway
#Canada
#nukesForDemocracy
#Suomi
#Finland
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📙 Também a 6 de Novembro, mas às 18h na Tigre de Papel, vai ser lançado "Memórias Dissidentes. Repressão e resistências quotidianas de homossexuais e lésbicas nas ditaduras ibéricas" — o livro que resultou da investigação de doutoramento que Raquel Afonso desenvolveu no IHC.
ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/memorias-dissidentes-lx/
#Histodons #MastoLivros #EstadoNovo #Francoism #Franquismo #LGBT #LGBTQIA #Ditaduras #Dictatorships #IberianHistory #QueerHistory #HistóriaIbérica #HistóriaQueer
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THIS. IS. WHAT. HAPPENS. IN. #FASCIST. #DICTATORSHIPS
WHEN. WILL PEOPLE. WAKE. UP?
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“This is what prosecutors do in #dictatorships,” Richard W. Painter, a #law professor at the University of MN who served as the chief #ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush, posted.
…#Comey appeared to take the news of the indictment calmly, responding in a video posted on social media. “We will not live on our knees, & you shouldn’t either…I have great confidence in the federal justice system & I’m innocent, so let’s have a trial.”
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the way that the #fact that the #unitedstates has overthrown dozens of #governments to set up #fascist #dictatorships is treated as "neat trivia" and not one of the greatest #crimes against #humanity in the last century is sickening
