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why does some mastodon influencers mislead their followers? (feddit.org)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Context: I am used to the right wing propaganda/ misinformation that is on Twitter.

What is surprising to me is the amount of Mastodon left wing influencers who mislead or say very illogical stuff that please their followers.

I had even seen people with high degrees who engage in this misinformation or encourage it, I replied to some of them to tell them the fallacies in their posts and to their credit some of them issued a clarification or deleted their posts, but most of them don't even reply or address the issues in their posts.

All of that lead me to the following probable conclusions:

They are just saying what will get them more followers/ publicity.
They are undetected targeted bots.
They truly believe in what they are saying and don't want to discuss it, which is weird considering the context.

Does anyone have any insight into this?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

It's the internet. Lots of people write silly stuff and blast their uninformed opinion around. That also happens on the Fediverse. They do it for various reasons. And it's easier to do it pseudonomysly than in real life. Also you'd expect some left-wing people to pop up on Mastodon, since they've left Twitter and Mastodon is the number one alternative.