I see a lot of posts lately, mainly in ‘world news’ communities, that when I investigate their source, I cannot come to any other conclostion that purposefully spreading of fake news and propaganda on lemmy.

I love this platform and want to see it thrive, but the fact that these kind of posts can so easily populate my feed is disturbing.

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    1 year ago

    Why? I feel it’s better than reading media owned by governments or large corporations and it often presents an alternate view.

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        1 year ago

        Not really. At least here you get various opinions. Crazy or not. Other sources seem to be endless echo chambers.

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        1 year ago

        Ironically not sourcing their claims!

        The whole Internet is lying to you!

        It’s like you have to be constantly vigilant and fact check everything!

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      1 year ago

      I love that too, but the majority prefers not seeing content that they don’t agree with.