It’s unbelievable how vocal the minority of conservatives on reddit have suddenly gotten in the one sub where a large demographic of important voters often interact. Hmmm. Coincidence?

  • DandomRude@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Exactly. I mean accounts that are typically not very old and exclusively spread right-wing content and the corresponding ideas - apart from perhaps a few low effort comments or posts that are most likely intended to conceal this fact. What makes these accounts even more suspicious to me is that they generally do not put forward any factual arguments, are not impressed by them in any way and are not even interested in a discussion. If you confront them and they respond at all, they always lapse into whataboutism or fall back on the familiar “I’m just asking questions” - both are strategies that think tanks in particular use to deflect attention from the fact that their claims and accusations have no factual basis. I can only conclude from such behavior that it is not about exchanging ideas with others, but about promoting a clearly defined world view, creating discord and aggression, tying up resources or forming a nucleus for belief in irrational assertions. I don’t think private individuals without a political agenda would do that - at least not to this extent.

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      3 months ago

      I don’t think private individuals without a political agenda

      i don’t believe there are private individuals without a political agenda

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      3 months ago

      It ain’t just far right…

      DNC coup of biden attract a lot of these operatives too recently

      Politics and news subs are ran by these people. Can’t tell if they are reporters or straight up DNC shills though

      We’ll also got corpo shill campaigns happening too although that’s Reddit’s bread and butter now

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        3 months ago

        It is certainly true that other interest groups also engage in propaganda (or PR, as it is called these days) in both traditional and social media. But that’s not what this thread is about.

        Anyway, you can perhaps even see something positive in the fact that the usual PR and opinion manipulation methods are now apparently also being applied to Lemmy, because this shows that whoever is responsible for these campaigns obviously ascribes a certain importance to this platform and thus also to the Fediverse - and that is somewhat of a good thing, I guess.

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          Yeah I was surprised to notice these patterns here this early

          I am assuming they are taking seriously and learn to to use the platform.

          It is also easier to notice due to way less volume here.

          I just hope with proepr education people can better avoid feeding it.

          Spotting Bad faith actor V disliking opinion is not quite a wide spread skill. But people are getting better at it.

          Remember folks, just because you like what they say, doesn’t make them a good faith actor. And reverse

    • MarciaLynnDorsett@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I can only conclude from such behavior that it is not about exchanging ideas with others, but about promoting a clearly defined world view,

      some people want to spread their ideas. that doesn’t make them not-people or even require that tehy are paid.

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        3 months ago

        Is your argument that it’s okay to spread hate and slander without providing any evidence as long as people aren’t getting paid? Also, what makes you so sure that these are private accounts?