Context: I am used to the right wing propaganda/ misinformation that is on Twitter.
What is surprising to me is the amount of Mastodon left wing influencers who mislead or say very illogical stuff that please their followers.
I had even seen people with high degrees who engage in this misinformation or encourage it, I replied to some of them to tell them the fallacies in their posts and to their credit some of them issued a clarification or deleted their posts, but most of them don’t even reply or address the issues in their posts.
All of that lead me to the following probable conclusions:
- They are just saying what will get them more followers/ publicity.
- They are undetected targeted bots.
- They truly believe in what they are saying and don’t want to discuss it, which is weird considering the context.
Does anyone have any insight into this?
Got any examples?
I second the question. Please give some examples
I already listed a example:
https://feddit.org/comment/2028988
This is a toot from the current popular toots on Mastodon.
What is misleading about this? This is clearly just a personal opinion. Just because you don’t agree doesn’t mean it is misleading.
That’s a radical position. I support social democratic economy, but it’s too radical for me. However, I don’t see what’s misleading about it…
So, what’s wrong about it? It sounds like a personal position to me. Even if the percentages aren’t exactly correct, I don’t think that completely corrupts their concept.
Is it a 100% tax rate as good as they think it would be? Maybe, maybe not, but predicting one way or the other isn’t misinformation.
There is misinformation and that’s a position I technically agree on, just depends on what is included and at what limit.
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