I would be delighted.
If we silenced all the sources of misinformation/disinformation people would be agast at how quiet it is.
Submitted 2 days ago by Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 days ago
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Lay’s Potato Chips: thin slices of potatoes fried and covered in salt.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 day ago
reaches for bowl
Potatar@lemmy.world 1 day ago
How can you sell it to people who “didn’t know they needed it” then? (“Bad” example -> luxury items, “good” example -> new tech which is actually helpful but hard to grasp yet)
ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It depends on how you classify misinformation/ disinformation… Scientific disinformation could just be stuff that has been disproven…
sturlabragason@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You know damn well what misinformation he’s talking about! Stop feeding us misinformation!
PeripheralGhost@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Or things yet to be disproven
piecat@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Science has an unintuitive philosophical system, it is actually impossible (or just not feasible) to “disprove” a lot of things absolutely 100%.
Best you can do is prove something, or fail to prove something.
And it does make some sense, there’s uncertainty in measurements, there’s some probability and statistics involved.
Proving there are NOT aliens out there would require checking every inch of every planet for life, remains, or fossils.
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 2 days ago
We talking flat earth? Are you disagreeing?
surph_ninja@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I guarantee the opposite would be the opposite of what you expect. The disinformation maintains the consensus. The voices speaking against the norm are the ones being drowned out by the bots and astroturfers.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 day ago
Only if humor isn’t accounted for and jokes also get purged for not being factual.
Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 2 days ago
When Russia invaded the Ukraine, and sanctions were initially placed against them and the internet to Russia was cut… Reddit was its old self for about 2 weeks. There were still some random nut bags wondering around saying crazy and hateful shit, but the level of misinformation
LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 days ago
What weeks? I wanna look on the IA.
rockerface@lemm.ee 2 days ago
If they mean the beginning of invasion, that would be end of February 2022
Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 1 day ago
washingtonpost.com/…/lumen-internet-russia-backbo…
ghostlychonk@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I remember that. Can’t recall the name, but there was one subreddit that was reduced to literally one person/bot posting when the Russian ones went dark.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Do you mean when they banned bots and like 95% of the content on most of the top reddits stopped coming in?
Or did this happen twice?
Mac@mander.xyz 1 day ago
wandering*
“wondering around” isn’t a phrase, just so you know.
Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ya, your write. Eye dew that alot. Sorry.