Context: I am used to the right wing propaganda/ misinformation that is on Twitter.

What is surprising to me is the amount of Mastodon left wing influencers who mislead or say very illogical stuff that please their followers.

I had even seen people with high degrees who engage in this misinformation or encourage it, I replied to some of them to tell them the fallacies in their posts and to their credit some of them issued a clarification or deleted their posts, but most of them don’t even reply or address the issues in their posts.

All of that lead me to the following probable conclusions:

  • They are just saying what will get them more followers/ publicity.
  • They are undetected targeted bots.
  • They truly believe in what they are saying and don’t want to discuss it, which is weird considering the context.

Does anyone have any insight into this?

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I don’t use Mastodon, and my only real use of Twitter was searching for keywords during major disasters, but truth is a constraint on what you say, and I’d imagine that some people think that it gets in the way of whatever their other goals are.