• Eggyhead@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    5 year plan. It’ll happen under a democrat president and the right will be screaming bloody murder that their right to misinform free speech is being encroached, and build a their political platform on it.

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      1 day ago

      Would it apply to politics? That’s just an opinion mostly. I don’t think that right or left could be considered 'experts ’ by any means, and both would be culpable for spreading misinformation. I guess one of the ways that they could get them would be when they say blatant untruths or have no evidence to back up stories that they promote.

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        16 hours ago

        Would it apply to politics?

        That’s a really important question to ask, because anything can be made into politics.

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        1 day ago

        Not sure exactly what actions they’d be willing to take, but fake experts on “non-political” subjects are definitely used to push political agendas.

        For example, climate change deniers.

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          1 day ago

          But climate change deniers would need to prove their expertise on weather and the climate etc. I was referring to the other post… I don’t think it would or could apply to politics.

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      2 days ago

      So much wrong with this comment. As if the left are immune to all misinformation lmao. Both the left and right are two of the most dupable groups I’ve ever witnessed.

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        16 hours ago

        I never said the left is immune to disinformation, just that a 5 year plan would likely land its fruition under a democratic president, which automatically makes it a bad thing from a republican perspective. Even though the process begins under Trump. It’s a nice setup for another round of anti-left propaganda when the timing is perfect for it, don’t you think?