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Social media depicts truth, but not how you think

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Imran Jan October 30, 2025 3 min read
The writer is a political analyst. Email: imran.jan@gmail.com Twitter @Imran_Jan

In the age of broadcast media - yes we now have to talk about them as a thing of the past — the emphasis was what we used to call ratings. In a nutshell, it was about money but a different method of earning money than the method of views as we see in the age of social media. There used to be gatekeepers of information, which were these faceless villains whose job it was to act as this giant filter, allowing only certain kinds of news and views (not the YouTube views but the opinion one) to pass through to the newsroom.

Once the general masses everywhere moved to social media, the news broadcasts and the opinion makers also moved there. Now they earn money through views instead of what was called ratings. And that migration also prompted the gatekeepers to move over there. Once there, they realised that they couldn't really suppress views expressed by people but they could suppress how many people it would reach by playing with the algorithm. So, before the gatekeepers prevented news from being broadcasted. Now, they catch and drown it after it has been broadcasted by suppressing its reach to the mass audience.

Many nations have used what I called the retail algorithm control method where they manipulate the algorithm in order to suppress the video reach of certain journalists and opinion makers who make troubling noises that the regime in charge anywhere doesn't like.

America, however, has what I call the wholesale algorithm control. Algorithms are the new slaves of America. Voices critical toward Israel are just either outright not allowed to be broadcasted on popular platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, X and now even TikTok or they are massively suppressed. TikTok was truly the only platform I knew that allowed voices critical of Israel to go viral but not anymore. At least for most people.

The villains of humanity have algorithms in their arsenal but we mind using human beings can still use the good old police work to decipher the truth and paint a simple picture of an otherwise overwhelmingly complex plot orchestrated by money hungry and democracy hating charlatans. Just pay attention to who praises whom and who bashes whom.

Two great examples are those of Elon Musk and Zohran Mamdani. Before TikTok was forced to sell so as to compromise its algorithm to Israel's liking, Elon Musk was taken on board because he owns X. Bringing Musk on board where he had to allow pro-Israel voices while at the same time suppress pro-Palestinian ones would not have been difficult because we are now seeing that Musk has always been a racist man who deeply cares only when a non-white person kills a white person.

Not the other way around where the statistics are much higher. The entire idea of Israel is based in hatred and racism because it is a fake country inhabited by blue eyed white skinned Ashkenazi Jews from Poland, Russia and elsewhere who justify grabbing Palestinian land because the Palestinians look brown and are not very educated.

So, bringing Musk on board would have required just a text from Netanyahu. And Musk bowed like any other American politician. Ever since, Musk has lost a massive support and love from the people but weird accounts would always appear on your feed, even though you never followed them, tweeting in his favour and talking great things about him. When you look closely, they're pro-Zionist accounts.

As for Mamdani, more tweets about 9/11 have happened in this last week than during the anniversary of 9/11 last month. All of those tweets are from similar accounts about reminding America that 9/11 was done by Muslims and that Mamdani is a Muslim. The creation of that perception was the driving force behind Israel allowing or maybe orchestrating the 9/11 attacks to happen. It benefits their bad Palestinians argument.

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