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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    You forgot all the left wing ones. You’d also need to ban MSNBC, Vox, the Huffington Post, Buzz Feed, CNN, Vice, ABC, CBS, The Daily Beast, Salon, Newsweek, The New York Times, Slate, The Washington Post, Politico, NBC, The Atlantic, and dozens more.

    Or is this not about misinformation, but rather information you like?

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      If you think those are leftwing news sources then you probably need to educate yourself a bit more on political ideology.

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        While true, as long as they spread propaganda they shouldn’t be allowed to be linked to.

        No matter their political bias.

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            I was responding to their comment about political alignment:

            If you think those are leftwing news sources then you probably need to educate yourself a bit more on political ideology.

            The source has nothing to do with credibility.

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          Their definition of the “left” section of their spectrum:

          Sources with a Left AllSides Media Bias Rating™ display bias in ways that strongly align with liberal, progressive, or left-wing thought and/or policy agendas.

          Even they recognize that liberal and progressive ideas are separate from leftwing ideas, but for some reason have chosen to lump them into a single group. Likely because there are very few leftwing media outlets and none of them have any real name recognition when compared to CNN, MSNBC, etc.

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            You underscore an issue with the left-right paradigm. Not all conservatives are the same either, yet people feel quite comfortable putting Daily Wire and Breitbart into the same bucket.

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      The number of Pulitzers in this comment should be enough to make you realize how dumb it is.