Has a single piece of false information peddled by major media outlets about the fake "Haitians whipped by Border Patrol" story been labeled as disinformation by our Big Tech overlords? Has a single account been flagged or suspended for spreading it?
This is exactly the kind of propaganda that disinformation labeling SHOULD be used for, if we're going to have it at all. Verifiably false and deliberately misleading posts are being used to attack the American political system and the rule of law.
People are being mercilessly defamed by the false story, and this particular spew of Fake News has a very good chance of getting people injured or killed. It's a textbook example of dangerous disinformation. Aggressive flagging and banning by Big Tech would help slow it down.
The people spreading this disinformation might be a bit less irresponsible if their accounts were banned and their posts were flagged as misleading. News orgs don't have a lot of credibility to spare right now. Some editors might actually start doing their jobs if prodded.
But no, this steaming load of political disinformation is spreading like wildfire, without consequences for the propagandists or any effort whatsoever to warn social media users they are being manipulated by hostile political operatives with deliberate falsehoods. /end
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