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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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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Bias on Wikipedia is very bad now. One of the co-founders of Wikipedia has declared it “propaganda.” It doesn’t get more damning than that. Indeed, I’ve been involved in certain pages which have been butchered beyond recognition over the years thanks to power capture in the mod hierarchy. You wouldn’t BELIEVE how bad it is on many pages. Anything which is even vaguely contentious is guaranteed to be ideologically captured.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You mean that co-founder Larry Sanger that is full on Trump supporter and believer of conspiracy theories that claims Wikipedia has a leftist bias?

That guy that claimed there are "multiple versions of facts"?

Yeah, he isn't a great source, I can tell you that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Examples?