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Our new Amplifier lets you curate your timeline as you scroll with the flick of a switch and personalise your social web.

By simplifying your feed, you can catch up on conversations that matter to you. Just turn on the Amplifier in your Newsmast settings!

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in reply to Newsmast Foundation

@Gargron Concerned there might be something fishy and novel going on here.

This is a network of bots boosting each other to the front page of .socials’s popular feed, despite none of the folks boosting it being on this instance. They’re all coming from a bespoke one. I’ve seen it a few times this week.

The result is basically an ad and I’m wondering 1) what underlying system causes this to happen and 2) if it represents undesirable behavior from your perspective as an engineer/admin.

in reply to Eugen Rochko

Hi, hope you're doing well,

We can see where some of the confusion creeps in here so just wanted to help straighten things out - this is definitely not an engagement farming bot network!

Our Community Feeds pick up posts from the main @newsmast account which we use to communicate with users of our app and Community Feeds. 1/2

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in reply to Eugen Rochko

What I find very worrying it that it promotes extreme far right propaganda like Fox News under the banner of news. The executive of Fox News admitted in court they are not a legitimate news outlet. This is undermining democracy in the US, Canada and elsewhere. While I understand the concerns of censorship there should also be a standard applied as to labelling factual news vs entertainment/propaganda.
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