So 80% of lemmy.ml users?
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Probably not 80% of their users, but definitely the majority of the active ones.
To be fair, everyone's views are shaped by propaganda of some kind, it's quite literally unavoidable if you exist within any society. Lots of people like to think that their ideas are just the product of their own independent thinking, but that isn't really how people work.
The key is to be constantly aware of it. Never follow someone blindly.
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The current state American society has been in for the last 10 to 15 years is heavily a consequence of Russian info ops. Many countries run info ops. But no country has done as much damage as Russia
Yeah, no. American Oligarchs did social media. Youtube, Twitter, facebook, instagram all American. First they did it for money now they are doing it openly for power. Cambridge Analytica, anti-vax, anti-trans, anti-abortion, anti-immigrant all of these are made by Americans to poison the world. And they are going to do much worse with AI. Americans destroyed the world.
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No other country has done as much? We're gonna just ignore how much support Israel has thrown behind Trump? Netanyahu was meeting and communicating with him during the 2024 election cycle, all while ignoring the Biden administration! Snubbing a sitting president for a prospective candidate!
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You're not wrong. I like to think I'm immune to proponganda because I'm anarchist but it's pretty obvious that I can be fooled just as easily as anyone by the pretense of speaking truth to power
My then history teacher said everyone is affected by propaganda, even trained and studied individuals like him. To think you are immune to influence from other people is very naive.
I've told co-workers that a person's resilience against propaganda is a spectrum. No one is completely immune, but you can approach high levels of resilience at the cost of your sanity.
That's me. I'm naive af
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Im seeing this just after having a while conversation about conservative Christians making a big deal about 'finding truth in faith' after the Kirk shooting and this feels similar to me
There's this clear implication that the 'truth' can only be found through your ideological worldview, and a complete abandoning of any attempt at justifying or supporting it through reason. Any piece of information that's misaligned is dismissed as propaganda - but what's especially annoying is that it doesn't even have to be coherently opposed to truth but merely distracting from what's supposedly more important.
Americans are one of the most propagandized populations on the planet - but I wouldn't even put Russia in the top 5 sources of it.
russia is behind most of the propaganda, and they do it to both sides too. its one of thier core strategies to distract west from russias geopolitical aspirations. i think russia has USA beat on being propagandized, usa is probably 2ND, if at most 3rd.
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but I wouldn't even put Russia in the top 5 sources of it.
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THE LARGEST MOST COMMONLY WATCHED BEST FUNDED MEDIA OUTLET ISNT MAINSTREAM MEDIA!!1!
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How else do you define "mainstream" than 'most commonly watched'? TBH, ALL of the major news teams (CBS, ABC, CNN, msNBC) have succumbed to PumpkinLord's rhetoric (almost NO calling out his lies or unconstitutional ploys).
Fox is the Eye of Sauron. May Reagan burn in intolerable hell for unleashing that shit upon us.
ML is basically the same too.
whipping out my Horseshoe Theory graph
So, as you can see, the tips of the horseshoe are where the Russian Propaganda lives.
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TBH, Rupert Murdock HELPED Putin refine/put RT on steroids. He was marketing his propaganda (division) here in the USA since Reagan let him through the door. Russian extras are just a bump up in the last 10-15 years.
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Yeah, let's just ignore the right-wing think tanks, the majority of conservative/MAGA influencers who aren't on Russia's payroll, and right-wing "news" organizations. It's totally just Russia and not right-wingers trying to destroy the country to grab all the power for themselves...
They haven't been on russias payroll for years.
They genuinely believe the shit they swill. By and large the paid agents were 5 to 10 years ago.
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This is true. Also there are zero mainstream media outlets that are not propaganda of some kind or another at this point. When you intentionally read all kinds of biased news it becomes more and more obvious.
I personally like to listen to both sides of the story so that I can absorb 2x the disinformation
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I'm against the corporate elite which is why I parrot the media they stuff in my face!
I only trust cats :3
I see you're in the (warm furry pockets) of big cat!
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