It's a huge market, selling hate. Next they should start a podcast and sell vitamin supplements.

Didn't the British do a similar thing to Pakistan a hundred years ago?

I'm not sure "devout" is the right adjective. Maybe tack on "self-described" or "incredibly ignorant."

The religious will never let their religion get in the way when it comes to filling their own pockets.

He understands it just fine.

Kind of interesting to see this happening in the UK as well. Similar to all of the Russian bots on Facebook targeting the US.

So Meta has been pulling this algorithm tactic for years, especially with teens, but now you're mad about a small part of the problem? Well, I suppose it is a step, I admit. I just don't get it, why don't we all just leave Meta?

Once again Western media reminds me the West doesn't understand belief/religion. It's one or the other. 🤷

I was thinking about this last year as America is being clowned by out-of-state actors and why it happens:

If you paid somebody in the US to shit-talk the Yellow team in say (and I'm picking a country at random) Romania, and promote the Blue team instead... They'd probably do it. Even if it's something insignificant like $50 a week. The US person has zero interest in the politics of Romania.

Fire off a few tweets like "Yellow team again failing people." Or "Blue team, true patriots", upvote some diversive shit, repost some memes, and easy money.

This is happening every day for cheap.

Mix in some AI bots, and for a few thousand dollars, you recreated Twitter's racist/hate shit that controls the narrative.

Staying over there, talking the jobs of hard working right wing influences.

Emily Darlington, a Labour MP who sits on the Science, Innovation and Technology select committee, said: “There’s clearly a market for hate content in the UK. When social media, intended to connect us, instead feeds us an endless stream of divisive and anger-fuelling content it distorts not only how we feel about our neighbours, but how we think the nation feels about our neighbours.

“The fact that this tactic is successful enough with a UK audience that individuals in other countries can profit off it shows how vulnerable we are. There’s nothing stopping foreign states from doing the same.”

Maybe the best way to counter xenophobia isn't to rely on anti-immigrant views not being expressed

a fragile convention that can easily fall apart

but to actively explain why immigration is advantageous.

If people do not understand the purpose of a policy, they will try to make sense of it, either on their own or via adopting the takes that seem most-plausible to them.

If one's way of dealing with politicially-unpopular policy is to hope that it doesn't come up and thus falls out of public discussion rather than to sell the public on it...shrugs

Democracy is intended to have the public act as final, ultimate overseers of policy. At the end of the day, one has to sell the public on major policy decisions or be at risk of the public acting in opposition to that policy.

A lot of British Pakistanis like to holiday in Pakistan, and I mean, a lot, and like any sufficiently large group of humans, there's bound to be a handful who bear a grudge.

Which is to say that If I hear that something terrible has happened to him, I won't be in the least bit surprised.

(Which is NOT to endorse someone doing anything like that. This is merely an observation.)

There's more than one person doing this. It's organized.

India blocked Pakistan creators from appearing in India. It is helpful since pakistanis were also like, pretending to be local police and causing phone scams.

And also a lot of hatred vitriol towards each other. In comments.

Blocking a country like Pakistan would be a great way to prevent hate and scam on social.

The situation, where earnings are based on incitement to hatred and manipulation, directly contradicts Islamic moral norms. The use of technology to create harmful content is a violation of ethical principles that require honesty and piety from a believer in all matters.

To understand why such methods of enrichment are unacceptable, it is worth Learn about what is forbidden in Islam at IslamBase101 https://islambase101.com/forbidden-in-islam/ Observance of religious ethics in the digital space is an important aspect of modern human life.

The title says it is a devout Muslim man but nothing in the article seems to confirm it. Not even that he is a Muslim. Just that he claims to only speak Urdu which is an obvious lie.

Weird article.