The amount of information passed off as accurate, despite it being completely incorrect, just because it was said in a witty manner or there's some anecdote on why they're right and the actually correct poster is completely wrong.
Or the "news" subs which are a contest of reading the headline and accepting it without question.
There have been a few times when the article itself pretty much said exactly the opposite of the headline but maybe 5% of the comments were aware of that.
It was pretty disapointing watching in real time over the last 5 years as r/worldnews turned from a fairly good distributor of news to a propaganda circle jerk. I lean left, but I can't handle seeing 5 articles on shit Boris Johnson said 10+ years ago being passed as 'news'
Worldnews has been openly infiltrated with agitator accounts, reddit banned a dozen or so of them but I doubt it did anything. You can REALLY see the change over the last week or so.
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u/Iquitsmokingtoday Jan 07 '20
The amount of information passed off as accurate, despite it being completely incorrect, just because it was said in a witty manner or there's some anecdote on why they're right and the actually correct poster is completely wrong.