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MossyFeathers ,

Something I’ve noticed is that it’s always the bigots who heavily manipulate social media while it seems like the other side tends to sit back and cross their fingers that social manipulation won’t be enough to overwhelm the truth. Why is it that the other side never does the same? Morality? A belief that goodness will always win in the end? The problem is that goodness refuses to stoop to the same tactics as evil, and when evil controls the narrative, evil wins. Which is more immoral, manipulating the narrative or following the rules and letting evil spread lies and deal damage until people eventually wake up to it?

WhatAmLemmy ,

The bigots are backed by the global conservative propaganda machine, funded by major corporations — for every fact they generate a dozen lies and conspiracy theories.

The “left” has no comparable psychological warfare apparatus.

cwagner ,

I’ve often seen lies and half-truths from people on the left. Which especially irks me because it’s usually about stuff where the things they are fighting against are already looking bad, without making things up.

edit: But to be fair, not on the organized and massive level of bigots.

autotldr Bot ,

This is the best summary I could come up with:

If successful, the vote will change the nation’s constitution for the first time in 46 years, creating a body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to advise the government on policies affecting their communities.

Though some argue the shift reflects public sentiment, Yes campaigners blame it on an ecosystem of disinformation - which they say is being led by figures in the No camp and “amplified” by suspicious accounts on social media.

“Race is a prime vector for abuse, trolling, disinformation and conspiracy theorising and on the No side of the debate, Twitter [X] is rife with that,” says Dr Timothy Graham, a digital media lecturer who has analysed over 250,000 Voice-related posts.

Among them have been lies that Mr Mayo told another Indigenous man to “sit down and shut up” for asking questions at a Yes campaign event; manipulated videos of the prime minister; rants insisting that non-Indigenous people will be banned from the country’s biggest sporting venues; and claims that the Voice had already failed at a referendum over 20 years ago.

However, some online accounts responsible for spreading messaging around racial division show signs of “inauthenticity” and bot-like behaviour, according to social media experts working with the Yes campaign.

Megan Krakouer, a Menang woman who helps run the National Suicide Prevention and Trauma Recovery Project, says her team has also seen a serious spike in reports of “racism and comments of hate”.

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