Yes and no.
Yes people are this stupid. But also bot networks. But also alt accounts. And many of those stupid people let the algorithm to pick them their political views, which is manipulated by both the bot activity and the platform holders.
Comment on Meta rolled back protections. Now hate is surging.
Zexks@lemmy.world 1 week agoThis kind of thinking is how we end up with extremist politicians like trump. YES PEOPLE ARE THIS STUPID. LARGE NUMBERS OF PEOPLE ARE THIS STUPID. Stop trying to ignore reality.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 6 days ago
BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 1 week ago
A bit of both I think.
As a Facebook group administrator I get to see a fair bit of definite fake stuff. Any time someone posts anything with the word stolen for example, a number of fake accounts will attempt to post with names of people who 'can help get your things back'.
They recently got a bit more advanced and will either use 'I'm new here" type posts to try to trick the admin into letting them into the group. It's a public group, hence a juicy target.
That said, we have a fair share of legit nutters, rednecks, NIMBYs, homophobes etc as well - I just suspect some of the EV and renewable energy hatred on Facebook is manufactured.