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  • An investigation is required first. The insurrection involved thousands of people all of which had their own cases, witnesses and evidence, all had to be investigated before going after one of the most powerful people in the country, Trump, owner of judges.

    It was not possible to just lock up Trump and if that was attempted there would be another January 6 with people storming whatever building Trump was held in.

    But I think you know that and the intent of your comments is to blame democrats for Trumps actions.








  • I’m sure some of it is organic but there have been times when I see a post and read the comments and they are all talking in a way that pushes a similar opinion. Then I see the same post reposted and notice the same accounts using the similar comments if not the exactly same. Often times being overly prepared with links and info dumping like a lot of effort was made to support their opinion. It is very sus.

    We may not be able to verify when it is happening but we absolutely do know there are organized efforts to shape public opinion by using multiple accounts to push talking points. And this is done by many different types of organizations, from countries like China and Russia, but also by companies like Monsanto or the fossil fuel industry. It has been happening rampantly for years.


  • It is tough to say. But there are red flags. Like when an opinion on a post is repeated a lot by different accounts in the thread but are heavily downvoted and an opposing opinion is heavily upvoted.

    This is what I would expect to see if bots brigading a thread are using unpopular talking points.

    For example, I see it a lot with anti DNC threads with the same accounts posting similar comments throughout multiple reposts of a single post. If I had to assume what views they are trying to promote, I would say they seem to be trying to discourage democrats to vote by sowing apathy aka FUD.






  • Two things: you should learn more about what the people of Gaza have been going through. What you’re describing isn’t so far off of what free Palestinians have been experiencing under siege.

    I want both the people of Gaza and the hostages to be happy. Don’t you?

    Second: be more skeptical of news sources and find your news from multiple sources. This whole thread is about how biased the Jerusalem Post is.

    So I should trust screenshots of article headlines instead of the actual article?

    Given the name of the lemmy community that this thread is posted in, is there any possibility that bias influences the opinion of credibility for the article?

    Or is that kind of skepticism not welcomed?

    The fact that you couldn’t even find this article at first and that now you’re taking it at face value makes it pretty clear you need to improve your news literacy.

    Someone posted a screenshot of the article instead of posting the article. I tried to do my due diligence by reading the article to check its credibility but I could only see the websites homepage in the image.

    I tried to use the search function to find the article but I’m on mobile and was unable to scroll the search results.

    The fact that you want me to trust screenshots of article headlines but not the article says a lot.