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France uncovers a vast Russian disinformation campaign in Europe (www.economist.com)

submitted 9 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

If you see memes & misinfo trend about immigration, Ukraine, drugs, vaccines, climate change, abortion, gas & oil, politics, NATO, EVs, MAGA, Palestine / Israel, dissidents etc. then invariably there is a bad actor driving that crap.

The thing is, there's a lot of stuff in those topics you list that we need to have social discourse about and there are legitimate differences of opinion on. I don't think you can write everyone that is against what somebody/government deems as "approved fact" as a bad actor. I'm sure I would disagree with you on a number of those topics and would argue them in good faith. This is what makes it all so hard.

[–] arc@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago

Yes you can have a social discourse. What I mean is somebody took time to turn some disinfo in meme form and amplify it. This is inauthentic actors poisoning discussions with lies and division.

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

The best lie is the one that contains grains of truth