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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.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Stop depending on Lemmy for news.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why? I feel it's better than reading media owned by governments or large corporations and it often presents an alternate view.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The why was answered in the OP

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ironically not sourcing their claims!

The whole Internet is lying to you!

It's like you have to be constantly vigilant and fact check everything!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Not really. At least here you get various opinions. Crazy or not. Other sources seem to be endless echo chambers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

sticky this post.