• urshanabi [he/they]@lemmygrad.ml
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      11 months ago

      Perhaps propaganda is effective enough where folks will censure of their ‘own’ accord without explicit instruction. I think it’s plausible since it’s in their material interests to act as such anyways.

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        11 months ago

        Yea, this phenomenon is described in Noam Chomsky’s propaganda model.

        It’s not explicit coordination.

        • 🏳️‍⚧️ 新星 [she/they]@lemmygrad.ml
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          11 months ago

          There might be some of it though such as Reddit saying “From the river…” is sometimes against the Content Policy. My guess is that 99.9% of the time it’s used is to mean freedom for Palestine and not calling for genocide or something