Andrew Bustamante
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I'm conscious whether I should say or not, because I don't want to infer.
By doing so, you're... I'm like inferring that a particular, but I'm just saying I've never felt what I experienced then.
And I have, I mean, this trailer will come out, we'll see loads of bots, we have systems.
But this was in my DMs.
It was encouraging someone like me who has a big platform to push a certain narrative.
And the only reason I noticed is because of the sheer volume.
And then the narrative was almost identical, right?
And I think, well, 1,700 different accounts of all asking me to do the same thing.
So you have final control over the edit of this.
So one way or the other, you can seeβ Or maybe an ally or someone else or whatever it might be.
I don't know.
But I justβit madeβmy point was that it's made me skeptical about my own information chamber.
And I'll be honest, before I realized what was going on, very persuasive.
Very persuasive.
Yeah, because they're saying nice things to you and then they're encouraging you to continue to push a certain narrative.
And it just took me a second to pause and thought, actually, maybe, wouldn't that be a perfect strategy in these moments to get people who have big platforms to just bump on their DMs and tell them that, you know, like, why aren't you standing up for us?
And please use your voice to speak on this particular issue.
And I thought, actually, maybe I need my information from somewhere else.
But do you think there was any risk of Iran developing uranium to the point that they could use that as a nuclear weapon?
Because if you look at the timeline here, which I'll throw up on screen, which is just a screenshot, by 2021, they were at a dangerous threshold.