In the Philippines, say, Facebook is the internet. Every business runs on it. People use it instead of news. Everybody uses Messenger to chat. You get free minutes with your phone that are specifically for FB/IG/Messenger.
Except instead of thirst traps it was a weird mix of outrage porn, religious imagery, and kids + pets being cute, singing or rescued from odd situations.
I asked a few questions of her to try and figure out if she like really grasped that it was AI, and she knew the general idea, but there's already so many filters and choppy edits of things it was honestly just too hard for her to make the distinction.
There are indeed allegations of that, so it's not impossible. You can read it yourself here:
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA001476...
> On the yacht he witnessed babies being dismembered, their intestines removed, and individuals eating the feces from these intestines
But of course I can also see how this could have been taken as fact and spread like wildfire. I wish good luck to the investigators, wow.
it is exactly this kind of content that is so pervasive and misleading. the FBI get thousands of reports like this every day saying that george bush is a lizard, antarctica is full of UFOs etc.
Let me use the same sentence structure as above, with another example to highlight the absurdity of it:
"a member of the general public alleged angela merkel was receiving instructions from a russian UFO scientist that had contact with an insect alien spieces in alpha centauri, so its not impossible.
Nothing to worry about; she already has.
Interesting side fact: The Philippines is #1 in social media usage in the world.
By what metric?
You can't use the real internet without asking your friends to pay for it.