Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe
Free_Opinions@feddit.uk 1 week ago5 million actual people telling you that ‘x’ political view is common and popular, causing you to doubt, or at least temper your own personal beliefs.
This isn’t misinformation. Lemmy gives you skewed image of what political views are popular. Truth social does the exact thing but from the opposite perspective. These are just groups of people self selecting onto platforms they most feel comfortable at. Having opposing political views to that of yours is not misinformation.
Tell that to Musk; X bans TONS of people over their viewpoints.
Again, not in any way exclusive to twitter. Go take a look at lemmy.ml modlog for example. These are both privately owned and the people running them are free to moderate however they desire. If you don’t agree with it, then do go there. That’s what I do with .ml instances too.
t3rmit3@beehaw.org 6 days ago
Right, the other example was. The whole point is the difference between propaganda (the bots) and legitimate political sentiment.
Free_Opinions@feddit.uk 6 days ago
The other is the same thing said differently. Not misinformation either.
t3rmit3@beehaw.org 6 days ago
No, bots are not real people, so them masquerading as real people holding an opinion is, by definition, misinformation.
Free_Opinions@feddit.uk 6 days ago
Name a social media platform without bots pretending to be real people.