Vox’s video about Chechen leader accused of torturing gay people is being spammed with dislikes - Sensationalist Headlines

[img]https://i.imgur.com/7VBCKr8.png[/img] [url]http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/05/voxs-video-about-the-chechen-leader-accused-of-torturing-gay-people-is-being-spammed-with-dislikes/[/url] [quote]In its first few hours online, Vox’s video on current leader of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov — under whose rule a vicious anti-gay pogrom has begun — performed like a usual Vox video on YouTube. The typical likes-to-dislikes ratio for a Vox video is 10:1, but between 2 to 3 p.m. on Thursday, the producer of the video Mac Schneider noticed the likes to dislikes ratio on the Ramzan Kadyrov video had tipped to 1:1 (as of noon on Friday, the video had 8,453 likes and 4,703 dislikes), Vox’s executive producer Joe Posner told me in an email explaining the timeline. Around this time, there was a spike in traffic to the video from Russia.[/quote]

Ramzan Kadyrov is an absolutely brutal dictator, anything bringing his actions to light rather than his self styled propoganda should be applauded no matter what you think of Vox.

Boils my fucking blood.

Shit like this is so common. It happened to Stephen Colbert and Keith Olbermann when they started out. [media]https://twitter.com/joeposner/status/867910256730533888[/media] I'm wondering if these were bots/paid humans, or just humans on a brigade.

[QUOTE=Occlusion;52285768]Ramzan Kadyrov is an absolutely brutal dictator, anything bringing his actions to light rather than his self styled propoganda should be applauded no matter what you think of Vox.[/QUOTE] The dislikes are apparently from Russians and trolls, not people who don't like Vox.

[QUOTE=ROFLBURGER;52285867]Shit like this is so common. It happened to Stephen Colbert and Keith Olbermann when they started out. [media]https://twitter.com/joeposner/status/867910256730533888[/media] I'm wondering if these were bots/paid humans, or just humans on a brigade.[/QUOTE] My bet would be brigade organized on Russian social media by accounts that can never be specifically proven to have been operated by the Russian government or any regional government and must clearly be good citizens concerned with American propaganda, tovarisch.

If it makes you feel any better the chance of the Chechen president getting assassinated is actually pretty high considering the vast amount of enemies the "official Chechen Government" has. I'm pretty sure this whole anti homosexual campaign is an excuse to gain a tighter grip on the people. Seeing as a majority of people in the Warsaw pact countries are highly homophobic, this was actually a good move in gaining popular support. Dictators are easily readable if you dig even slightly into the context of their politics.

What kind of a dictator sends dislikes to a video on youtube. Seriously.

[QUOTE=Makzu;52286017]What kind of a dictator sends dislikes to a video on youtube. Seriously.[/QUOTE]a petty and insecure one

[QUOTE=Shirt.;52285923]If it makes you feel any better the chance of the Chechen president getting assassinated is actually pretty high considering the vast amount of enemies the "official Chechen Government" has.[/QUOTE] doubtful as ramzan is killing people the russians hate the most: gay chechens [editline]28th May 2017[/editline] he's a putin puppet so here comes the "there are no dead gays in chechnya"

[QUOTE=Makzu;52286017]What kind of a dictator sends dislikes to a video on youtube. Seriously.[/QUOTE] Someone with a budget for propoganda and information control. US politicians do the same shit to manage PR, we're just lucky enough to have the subjects be a bit more tame most of the time.

[QUOTE=Makzu;52286017]What kind of a dictator sends dislikes to a video on youtube. Seriously.[/QUOTE] A pretty smart one. This is how most people get their news nowadays and if they think other a lot people don't believe a story or see something heavily down-rated they are less likely to watch or believe it.

frightening to think a majority of republicans consider Russia to be an ally when they tacitly support the genocide of LGBT people.

[QUOTE=1239the;52286127]frightening to think a majority of republicans consider Russia to be an ally when they tacitly support the genocide of LGBT people.[/QUOTE] That's not an endorsement of hating gay people, Russia is just becoming a partisan issue.

Vox's videos are always hit and miss but this one was well done, highly researched and very informative. I didn't know who this dude was until I watched the video, then delving a bit into his history, you see the muck he's built up but he's glorified as the saviour to Chechnya Problem is tho, if Putin tries to dethrone the cunt then he restarts the independence movement and everything hits the fan like it's 2000 so if anything, this dude has the upperhand if Putin doesn't want the Russian army to do what they did back in the day since they did give him tons of money to rebuild the republic from the ground up