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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Not sure how to report entire communities, but https://lemm.ee/c/vaccines just opened up and it's a troll forum for vaccine misinformation.

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

What ever happened to "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"? I think you need to realize that echo chambers of misinformation are a symptom, not a cause. Fighting the echo chambers but not the root causes of what pushes people there only emboldens them and leads to more polarization.

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

I think humanity left that behind around this accelerated polarization when they noticed that it takes zero effort to spam what is wrong and magnitudes of limited resources to do the correcting.

And if everyone just defends "yeah it's ok to spread that even though it's not right" we see the accelerationism growing.

The effect on internet platforms isn't important to the 9 % commenting, it's to the rest who don't engage. They browse, they see things which aren't real. Some they dismiss, some they don't, but they all have an effect on their subconscious.

Of course the root cause should be sorted as well, it's just that this is also a known issue with massive harm to prevent