Disinformation is the deliberate use of lies to manipulate people, whether to extract profit or to advance a political agenda. Its unwitting accomplice, misinformation, is spread by unknowing dupes who repeat lies they believe to be true. In America today, both forms of falsehood are distorting our perception of reality.

In a democracy, the people need a shared set of facts as a basis to debate and make decisions that advance and secure their collective interests. Differences of opinion, and even propaganda, have always existed in the United States, but now, enemies of democracy are using disinformation to attack our sovereign right to truthful information, intellectual integrity, and the exercise of the will of the people. Online disinformation is particularly insidious because of its immediacy, its capacity to deceive, and its ability to reach its target.

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    8 months ago

    Is that the sound of a liberal that can’t explain why his government refuses to call the Genocide israel commits a Genocide?

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      8 months ago

      No, it’s the sound of me pointing out that you can try to spread this garbage everywhere but none of us are falling for it

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          8 months ago

          No, I literally answered your stupid question, keep up.

          Basic reading comprehension is fucking hard for you, init?

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              8 months ago

              That’s because I didn’t.

              Because I’m not going to.

              Because you’re a bad faith dipshit who won’t listen to basic fact and everyone here knows it

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      8 months ago

      And that is the sound of someone going ad hominem when they feel insecure.

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          Because Linker and you both have a history of willful stupidity

          Which you of course know because you’ve been told this many times

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                8 months ago

                >Yeah, actually, it does

                no, it doesn’t. a claim made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. when someone is asked to support their position, and they instead attack the person asking, no one should believe their claim.

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                  a claim made without evidence

                  Good thing I didn’t make a claim, then. You said I had to defend my position when I do not, that’s all that I said.

                  when someone is asked to support their position, and they instead attack the person asking, no one should believe their claim.

                  I agree. Unless said person has a history of participating in bad faith, like yourself.

                  You can add user notes to people on Lemmy, I have one for you and am quite familiar with your complete lack of basic conversational skills thanks to it.

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                    >You can add user notes to people on Lemmy,

                    you can do that on mastodon, but it’s not a core feature of lemmy. are you using the paid, proprietary client for a free software, federated protocol platform?

                    gross.

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                    your syntax was ambiguous. it’s not my fault you didn’t construct it clearly. there is certainly a problem with literacy in this thread, though.

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          And redirecting too! Wow, you’re managed to hit several of the bad faith talking points that conservatives use.

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          My last message and I am disengaging from you since neither you nor any of this are worth my effort. You can’t point at someone and say “see, you don’t have the answers to everything therefore I win, checkmate, home run, idiot”. If you had a real point to make, you’d have done so long ago. Instead, you’re just slinging a bunch of turds around and then pat yourself on the back for a job well done. I’m here to tell you that you have failed to convinced a single person of anything you said. Further, you may not actually believe anything you say and only say it in an attempt to feel better than others. Both of these things are very unhealthy and are something that you should resolve for your own health and safety.

          /out

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            8 months ago

            Is that the sound of a liberal that can’t explain why his government refuses to call the Genocide israel commits a Genocide?

            Long comment zero content. You have proven my point

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      Leftists aren’t liberals and liberals aren’t leftists. Everyone knows both parties are bad. One is worse though.