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What is the purpose of the fakenews comm?
Removed by modIt’s annoying.
Yes, I’ve blocked it now. But why was it created in the first place? What do people get out of it?
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It's the place where you get updates on Tony Soprano who's died 50 times now
It's just a really bad joke that sometimes strays into irony so poisonous that it's indistinguishable from wrecker behavior.
It's funny. The fact so many people get consistently bent out of shape over it makes it even more so.
I’m genuinely shocked at the amount of people that don’t like it
not just don't like it, like actively think its reactionary and should be like destroyed
just because its silly doesn't mean its reactionary
according to critics /c/fakenews is simultaneously too good at tricking people and not good enough. too strong and too weak at the same time
It tests media literacy in case anyone starts accepting Hexbear headlines uncritically
The comm would be a million times funnier if it just had CNN articles lol
A bit gone way to far. Just block it. Otherwise you'll get a bunch of salty redditors commenting skill issue or some stupid shit. It's toxic.
Or don’t block it and complain. That adds more value to the site anyways, it keeps people on their toes /s
Just block it.
did we all collectively forget about the idea of a missing stair?
Honestly, it had potential, but the quality of the posts are too low effort to be funny.
You want to know what good “fake news” posts could look like, check out The Onion.
I think we should repurpose it to become a disinformation center. It’d be an archive of fake news screenshots or memes from a liberal and conservative POV to spread around the internet.
For example, making some meme about the RAND corporation being loyal to Russia because they said peace talks with the Houthis will be better than bombing them. Then spreading them around with fake neoliberal accounts.
Why should 4chan and the CIA and neoliberal teenagers be the only ones spreading disinformation? So many of us are already terminally online. At the very least we should use that time to do the same things as our enemies. The effectiveness will be limited because we don’t have millionaire beneficiaries, but we just need to be lucky once.
I’m willing to kick start this transition. Just gimme a couple hours or days to create a batch of disinfo. It’ll be a mix of current events and bigger picture stuff
This is a good idea. Instead of shitting up the place it would be used to shit up mainstream narratives.
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