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[-] cabbage@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago

I don't even disagree, but the amount of left-wing misinformation posted around here is astronomical.

It's also well known that Russian misinformation campaigns are seeking to increase polarization, so they are actively producing bullshit media on both ends of the political spectrum. Their goal is not (exclusively) to push European societies to the right, but to sow division by pulling people to the extreme on both sides. The bad actors don't care which extreme you go to.

I personally think centrist are cowards, and right-wing people are either naïve or evil. I'm firmly planted on the left. But that's exactly why I consider the main threat in my media stream to be disinformation targeted precisely at people like myself: Left wing, believable, almost completely correct, but tailored for radicalization.

And by god, there's a lot of it. I'm being told on a daily basis to hate; that voting for Harris is the same as murdering children; that all Israelites are full of hate, never mind the huge protests in Tel Aviv or any of the numerous accounts of internal resistance; that the UN cannot be trusted, despite them being under constant attack by Israel, not Palestine; that Ukraine is responsible for dragging on their war against Russia.

Reality has a liberal bias, but that doesn't mean it's not incredibly easy to produce misinformation with a leftist spin. And it's being spread like wildfire in certain corners of Lemmy.

[-] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago

I apologize for not being able to find the button to Upvote Twice on lemmy. Once will have to suffice.

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