Post #2493054
2025-08-21 14:16 UTC
@Xeniax@mastodon.ml the LA Music Festival posts are spreading (mostly) misinformation about the size and quantity of these protests.
Videos frequently include BLM protests, ai fabrications, etc.
Users that believe they are sidestepping algorithmic suppression of massive, violent demonstrations are engaging with a conspiracy theory.
It might be an attempt at algorithmic resistance, but it is more revealing of our fractured information landscape.
Still cyberpunk af, but in the bad, cautionary way.
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@maj@cosocial.ca 2025-08-21 15:32
@mick@cosocial.ca @Xeniax@mastodon.ml I hate how much the "it's PRACTICALLY true" bullshit has spread to the left. I don't know if people just think they have to do it to compete with the right's firehose of lies or if it's bad actors. I have had arguments on many platforms with people knowingly spreading fake info because the video or screenshot evokes the "correct" response and therefore is true "enough"... It's a losing battle and frustrating as hell.