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What can we do, as lemmy users, to fight fake news being pushed in the platform? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago by YourEmptyWallet to c/asklemmy

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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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[–] Zeth0s 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

The real challenge is "how do users can judge what is a fake news?". In a similar situation it is an extremely difficult task even for newspapers with journalists on the field. See what's happening with the blame-shifting on the bombing of Gaza's hospital.

Even guardian and bbc have trouble understanding where is the truth.

A solution could be filtering the sources (for instance, no unknown blogs, or the sun and fox News, only reputable sources such as guardian and bbc). But important real news might be missed in this case, that are direct testimony of journalists on the field. And supposedly reputable sources such as wsj or similar are also known to have shared fake news, particularly when it comes to this conflict. And also reputable sources are biases.

It is an extremely difficult topic. No one has a definitive answer unfortunately.

I would be in favor of filtering at least the widely known sources of fake news (shady blogs, all Murdock's media and so on)

Edit. An adjective to clarify

[–] GillyGumbo 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You say wsj is reputable, and then suggest filtering Murdoch. Murdoch bought wsj in 2007.

[–] Zeth0s 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't put wsj as reputable. I meant that even a journal considered reputable as wsj has been found publishing fake news in the past. That's why I say that I am pro filtering all Murdoch's media

Edit. I added an adjective in the original comment to make it clearer

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