Comment on Europe gives Elon Musk 24 hours to respond about Israel-Hamas war misinformation and violence on X
cjsolx@lemmy.world 8 months agoI agree with you, but I’m curious to know your thoughts: What do you do when the 2-3% of people who are willing to take that fight head-on aren’t nearly enough to combat the endless bots and astroturfers across social media? I don’t count myself amongst those 2-3% by the way, I’m on Lemmy and not Reddit in part to avoid some of that. Engaging is far too much effort and I have my own problems to worry about.
erranto@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s about making choices really. you could either take everything and do your best to sieve through the huge amount of disinformation everywhere even if it takes too much time and even risks. or chose a “good-willing good-intending” governments and mass media apparatus to be your main source of information and final arbiter of truth.
In both choices you will encounter disinformation, bias, and propaganda, except in the last one you will only be presented with one version of the events, that’s why I prefer to have access to all propaganda(s) to choose my poison.