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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    1 year ago

    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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      1 year ago

      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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          1 year ago

          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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        1 year ago

        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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          1 year ago

          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.