Comment on Is the bot/troll situation getting worse?
EndlessApollo@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s been a little terrifying seeing a shit ton of supposed liberals acting like trump supporters the last couple weeks. Calling anyone who disagrees with them or questions anything about biden fascists, going out of their way to say hurtful ableist shit, calling pro Palestinian protestors Russian plants (one person even calling for them to be executed), chanting “FOUR MORE YEARS!” whenever Israeli genocide is mentioned, lots of really MAGA-type shit. Besides the last thing though, I’ve hardly seen any of this irl. I’ve just assumed liberals have taking a sharp right turn into reactionary shit, but maybe some/a lot of it is a conservative psyop or something. Idk, I still think it’s mostly real, but if I were a hate group on 4chan or a russian troll farm trying to make leftists not wanna vote for democrats I’d be doing exactly this
haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 9 months ago
Thanks for chiming in. That indeed is scary.
Astroturfing is a very common thing nowadays btw. There are many cases that even made the news: businessinsider.com/astroturfing-grassroots-movem…
Sorry for linking that site. Feel free to google others.
I will start to really pay attention what communities these shitty posts in my feed come from and both report and block them in my instance. Lets see if that helps.