Article by Amanda Marcotte for Salon: It details how far-right propaganda efforts on various social media platforms can be disrupted if the financial ties of the people maintain them are targeted. The article touches upon various forms of misinformation, responsibilities of platform holders and the rise of various far-right influencers.

  • Nerorero@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    Very interested to see what happens on r*ddit now. The Frontpage has shown a lot of right wing stuff in the days after the lockdown, that has not went away since.

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      That - unfortunately - was predictable: Most right-wing subreddits never cared about the protest anyway, never locked down and thus retained most of their active subscribers. Meanwhile people who care about topics like accessibility and/or are anti-capitalist are leaving the platform.

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        I also noticed a lot of the replies on Reddit were far more right-leaning than they used to be. Specifically was on a video of a creep getting called out for taking creep shots of a woman, and around 50% of the comments were saying that he should be allowed to do what he wants because it’s in public ??? It was honestly disgusting.