There’s tons of disinformation being spewed onto social media and all other online platforms leading up to an election.
That disinformation in the form of paid ads and engagement-driving viral posts is officially against the rules everywhere, but if the rules aren’t enforced, they’re meaningless.
TL;DR: less effective enforcement against disinformation = more profits for the platforms
Return2ozma: provides tons of mainstream sources demonstrating actual things that objectively happened according to people who have no reason to make it up
This guy over here: “I still don’t believe your conspiracy theory” 🤦
It was the Hillary campaign’s decision to help elevate Trump to the nomination and give him as much media exposure as possible, thinking that it would make it easy for her to win.
It was also them that ran one of the worst presidential campaigns in history, including telling people not to vote for her and neglecting to campaign in key swing states out of pure arrogant hubris.
Inescapable conclusion to anyone who isn’t a Hillary stan or otherwise a blind Dem party loyalist:
Hillary and her campaign are more culpable for Trump infesting the white house than anyone else outside of the far right echo chamber and foreign agents.
looks at Biden’s poll numbers in states he can’t afford to lose and stubborn insistence on not changing the unpopular course of action that caused them
Yes. Her campaign elevated him to the nomination and ran one of the worst presidential campaigns in history, alienating tens of millions and leading to one of the lowest voter participations in presidential election history.
If they hadn’t done both, there’s no way that he’d ever had come within cheating distance of the white house.
Figures from 200 parties in 25 countries suggest hardline groups have had rise in donations in recent years, increasing war chests before European parliament elections...
To equate the far right who want to take away the rights (and often lives) of all minorities with the far left who want to take away most of the wealth of billionaires and multinational corporations is extremely lazy and incurious at best, deliberate disinformation at worst.
And that’s not even mentioning the MSM use of “populist” as meaning “everyone who doesn’t conform to the establishment orthodoxy whether they’re far right demagogues or policy oriented leftists” 🤦
I legitimately don’t know if it being such a giant waste of time and money was intentional
It was either that or colossally incompetent.
Given that it had to go through several rounds of approval before being announced and every independent expert pointed out that it would be much less effective in itself than delivering aid by truck while doing nothing to keep the IDF from controlling it, that’s highly unlikely, though.
It’s a very transparent PR stunt that they almost certainly knew wouldn’t make a dent in the deliberately induced starvation.
If I was driving around in a Fiat Homer, I wouldn’t worry too much about what people call it. Especially not if I was also wearing such a ridiculous hat…
Grover Cleveland was ONE president and counting him twice for being nonconsecutive about it is a stupid thing to do regardless of it being "the way we do it"
far and away (fedia.io)
Twitch is disbanding its Safety Advisory Council and will replace it with streamers (www.theverge.com)
This might beat OpenAI
Fan suing Madonna for ‘forcing’ them to watch sex acts during concert (www.independent.co.uk)
Soon (pawb.social)
Powerful enchantment (slrpnk.net)
Hillary Clinton celebrates Donald Trump verdict with 'She was right' merch (www.irishstar.com)
Christian lifeguard can't handle standing near a Pride flag, sues Los Angeles (www.advocate.com)
Man with suspended license appears in Michigan court over Zoom while driving (abc7.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/15976653...
Quarter of political donations in EU go to extremist and populist parties, data reveals (www.theguardian.com)
Figures from 200 parties in 25 countries suggest hardline groups have had rise in donations in recent years, increasing war chests before European parliament elections...
The US-built pier in Gaza broke apart. Here's how we got here and what might be next (apnews.com)
Italy’s PM says fascism is ‘consigned to history’. Not everyone is so sure (www.bbc.com)
They line up in military-like formation: a thousand strong, most dressed in black, some with tattoos on shaved scalps....
Saudi textbooks remove Palestine from most maps, says Israeli study (www.middleeasteye.net)
References to Israel as an ‘enemy’ have also been altered in new editions of school curricula, in an apparent toning down of hostile language...
Europe on high alert after suspected Moscow-linked arson and sabotage (www.theguardian.com)
Security services say spate of fires and infrastructure attacks could be part of systemic attempt by Russia to destabilise continent...
meme
His neighbors live in constant terror (lemmy.world)
The Vitamin (lemmy.world)
Sorry, the name stuck (lemmy.world)
Ken M with some words of wisdom (lemmy.world)
Israel literally funded Hamas so they could have a convenient enemy (lemmy.world)