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LOLOL -- This platform is just as bad as Reddit for misinformation. It's usually silly shit, but it's almost always 90% truth laced with 10% lie. The fact that you believe it's somehow immune to this is just testament to how hard it is for people to see this kind of thing clearly when it's "on their side". Problem is, any time it's called out, people get massively downvoted for it, so people have stopped calling it out.
Do you have any examples?
As a mod for a couple of the biggest communities… gestures to everything
Recently there was a news story about how people earning 150k were struggling financially. Even just reading the article was enough to know the idea was bullshit (which is probably why the headline used such mealy-mouthed language). But that did not stop a bunch of users from prognosticating about how terrible the economy is and how we are on the verge of collapse.
The idea that households earning more than 150k are struggling is objectively wrong. They are not. But that idea is consistent with the political sentiments of users here ( billionaires vs everyone else in a zero sum economy ) so it gets traction.
People pass around trash sources like the new republic which often just copies other news outlets but reframes stories to be consistent with lefty sentiments about whatever current events are going on.
In one community I encountered an image macro criticizing a judge for making a ruling against some plaintiffs suing Trump that was completely divorced from any context, making it appear the judge was in the tank for trump when, if you knew even a little about her, or the ruling you would immediately recognize that idea as bullshit.
Those are just a few examples off the top of my head
That news is basically about how people who used to earn 150k per year that since losing their job and can't find one, thus can't keep up with their mortgage and debt. What's so fake about it? You sure we read the same news?
I was referring to the story that implied the rate of loan defaults was rising among households earning over 150K, but the data showed a default rate that increased from something like 0.17% to 0.36% of all households in that category, didn't describe the variance around that rate, and didn't describe the reliability of the administrative records from which the rate was calculated--two factors that will dominate percentage fluctuation at values that infinitesimally small.
If you go into the comment sections where that story was posted, you will see people talking about how America forces even middle class people to spend lavishly beyond their needs, or how people in this class are irresponsible with money, or how impossible it is to live in HCOL cities, or how wealthy people are stealing everything, or how corporations are stealing everything. Few people really questioned the plausibility of the story's framing.
Easily the one I see the most is Trump talking about "they rigged the election and now I'm here." -- I'm pointing out this one specifically, because any dunderhead dipshit knows from context what he's talking about, but lemmy absolutely dives into the shallow end with it...
He's clearly making the claim that Dems rigged the 2020 election, and because of that, he's president in 2024 when ... I dunno - whatever 2 events are happening. (Fifa or some shit?) But EVERY fucking time on Lemmy it's like "See he's admitting he rigged the election!" and everyone just meep meeps into agreeance.
That's just one off the top of my head, and that's with blocking most politics-based subs. If lemmy can't even read or gather context from a sentence correctly -- There's no hope for the world.
Could the lemmings be referring to the old trope where some loudmouth (usually a conservative) bangs on about an issue with some minority group ad nauseum and then some time later it turns out they were actually a perpetrator of the thing they banged on about, ie every accusation is an admission of guilt?
In this case, no - comments in these usually directly infer that he's saying that the rigged election was his team. There's no mistaking it. They aren't pointing at the "every accusation is a confession" bit that conservatives usually do, but many of them have commented things like "this is a direct confession, jail him now!" sadly, unironically.
While I agree the 2024 election definitely had fraud, and they're further attempting to now outright rig the midterms, the particular video I'm referring to wasn't the direct confession that some of these morons think it is.
And the problem also resides in the fact that this is only a single example....of many....