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.

  • jaywalker
    94·
    9 months ago

    If you think those are leftwing news sources then you probably need to educate yourself a bit more on political ideology.

    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
      45·
      9 months ago

      While true, as long as they spread propaganda they shouldn’t be allowed to be linked to.

      No matter their political bias.

        • JasSmith@sh.itjust.works
          12·
          9 months ago

          I was responding to their comment about political alignment:

          If you think those are leftwing news sources then you probably need to educate yourself a bit more on political ideology.

          The source has nothing to do with credibility.

      • jaywalker
        2·
        9 months ago

        Their definition of the “left” section of their spectrum:

        Sources with a Left AllSides Media Bias Rating™ display bias in ways that strongly align with liberal, progressive, or left-wing thought and/or policy agendas.

        Even they recognize that liberal and progressive ideas are separate from leftwing ideas, but for some reason have chosen to lump them into a single group. Likely because there are very few leftwing media outlets and none of them have any real name recognition when compared to CNN, MSNBC, etc.

        • JasSmith@sh.itjust.works
          22·
          9 months ago

          You underscore an issue with the left-right paradigm. Not all conservatives are the same either, yet people feel quite comfortable putting Daily Wire and Breitbart into the same bucket.