If we silenced all the sources of misinformation/disinformation people would be agast at how quiet it is.

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• Test_Tickles@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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

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  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What weeks? I wanna look on the IA.

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    • rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If they mean the beginning of invasion, that would be end of February 2022

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    • Test_Tickles@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      washingtonpost.com/…/lumen-internet-russia-backbo…

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  • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    wandering*

    “wondering around” isn’t a phrase, just so you know.

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    • Test_Tickles@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ya, your write. Eye dew that alot. Sorry.

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  • ghostlychonk@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?

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• LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I would be delighted.

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Lay’s Potato Chips: thin slices of potatoes fried and covered in salt.

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    • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      reaches for bowl

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  • Potatar@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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)

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• ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It depends on how you classify misinformation/ disinformation… Scientific disinformation could just be stuff that has been disproven…

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  • sturlabragason@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You know damn well what misinformation he’s talking about! Stop feeding us misinformation!

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  • PeripheralGhost@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or things yet to be disproven

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    • piecat@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We talking flat earth? Are you disagreeing?

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    • ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      All of the above.

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• surph_ninja@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Only if humor isn’t accounted for and jokes also get purged for not being factual.

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