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What can we do, as lemmy users, to fight fake news being pushed in the platform? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by YourEmptyWallet@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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I see a lot of posts lately, mainly in 'world news' communities, that when I investigate their source, I cannot come to any other conclostion that purposefully spreading of fake news and propaganda on lemmy.

I love this platform and want to see it thrive, but the fact that these kind of posts can so easily populate my feed is disturbing.

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[-] otter@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago

which community of worldnews?

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Lemmy.ml

[-] drekly@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

They also have a moderator who told me that Ukraine probably blows up their own buildings, and deleted all comments in the conversation when evidence proved otherwise.

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Was it the same mod that did an AMA and was super duper chill with the tankies? God, what an insufferable thread looking back

[-] Scrof@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

Well they're just a bunch of tankies who watch aljazeera and rt.

[-] DefinitelyNotAPenguin@kbin.run 5 points 1 year ago

Which is run by the Lemmy devs who are tankies

this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2023

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