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What can we do, as lemmy users, to fight fake news being pushed in the platform?

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I see a lot of posts lately, mainly in ‘world news’ communities, that when I investigate their source, I cannot come to any other conclostion that purposefully spreading of fake news and propaganda on lemmy.

I love this platform and want to see it thrive, but the fact that these kind of posts can so easily populate my feed is disturbing.

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drekly@lemmy.world
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They also have a moderator who told me that Ukraine probably blows up their own buildings, and deleted all comments in the conversation when evidence proved otherwise.

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Lemminary@lemmy.world
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Was it the same mod that did an AMA and was super duper chill with the tankies? God, what an insufferable thread looking back

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Scrof@sopuli.xyz
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Well they’re just a bunch of tankies who watch aljazeera and rt.

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DefinitelyNotAPenguin@kbin.run
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Which is run by the Lemmy devs who are tankies

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