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People do suggest there are liberal echo chambers, and there are conspiracy theories that liberals are brainwashed. Not sure if that's the same. Right now the stuff I could see misinformation against liberals could do might not be that useful to anyone inclined to push misinformation. I guess democrats are just generally less in lockstep anyway so you're picking one or another fringe but maybe not enough to accomplish much.
The only thing currently uniting liberals that's not probably just how the world is might be just DEI stuff, which I don't actually think is that disruptive yet.
What would a liberal echo chamber even look like anyway?
From everything I've seen and experienced, liberals mostly take things with a grain of salt and will gladly criticize their leaders' flaws. But conservatives on the other hand are pretty much universally riled up against Trudeau like he's the coming of satan.
Liberals tend to share ideologies, conservatives tend to share their hate for anything liberal and "woke". Only the latter makes it easy to develop an echo chamber.
I don't see anyone being a complete Trudeau fan, or a Biden fan in the south. But what you do see in the south is people still being Trump diehards 3 indictments and several felony charges in, and calling the DOJ and FBI corrupt for attacking their dear leader. If the FBI finds dirt on democrats/Biden, the voters will happily get rid of Biden and replace him with someone less corrupt. Conservative ideologies are a lot more in the vibe of the goal justify the means, any means to get what they want.
One side tries to find solutions with varying degrees of success, the other focuses on outrage and criticizing the situation without really offering solutions or just ignore the problems in the name of not being inconvenienced.
There's plenty of left wing echo chambers, but they're leftist, not liberal. r/wayofthebern, for instance, or one of the various communist subreddits are good examples.
The difference here is that leftists extreme enough to fall into those echo chambers are far less common than conservatives. And, of course, they represent a very small subset of the left when compared to conservatives who accept misinformation.
wayofthebern was founded by Trumpists in an attempt to divide and conquer Democrats prior to the 2016 election. Back when masstagger worked on reddit you could see all of the users in that sub being regular posters on thedonald, conservative and the rest of the trumpist subs. It was also very obvious in how they never post anything about the policies Bernie Sanders are for, but only ever post threads that smears other Democrats.
It was never a sub for actual Bernie voters, not even "extreme leftists". It was extreme rightist all the way down.