Comment on The Israel-Hamas War Is Drowning X in Disinformation

• KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  When Bank of America announced 0% downpayment loans for people with living in red lined communities with an abnormally low home value. Reddit was flooded with posts saying “BoA is giving better loans to black people” completely ignoring that the loans had no race qualifications. All it takes is one poorly summarized post and the whole site starts screaming nonsense.

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  • cheery_coffee@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Beyond that there are a lot of entities pushing their own narratives via bot farms and such, and it’s completely opaque to the users and mods who is upvoting content, or what’s being buried by powermods.

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