He generally shows most of the signs of the misinformation accounts:

  • Wants to repeatedly tell basically the same narrative and nothing else
  • Narrative is fundamentally false
  • Not interested in any kind of conversation or in learning that what he’s posting is backwards from the values he claims to profess

I also suspect that it’s not a coincidence that this is happening just as the Elon Musks of the world are ramping up attacks on Wikipedia, specially because it is a force for truth in the world that’s less corruptible than a lot of the others, and tends to fight back legally if someone tries to interfere with the free speech or safety of its editors.

Anyway, YSK. I reported him as misinformation, but who knows if that will lead to any result.

Edit: Number of people real salty that I’m talking about this: Lots

  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOP
    11·
    1 day ago

    the article you’re talking about reads like a case of “our holy narrative-correcting taskforce vs their pagan misinformation agents”

    Sure, if you want to make this new, totally different argument, you’re welcome to. My point was that the original argument, that western governments have been caught funding mass editing to promote western narratives, was exactly backwards from what’s in the article. If you now want to say that funding mass editing for anti-Western narratives is a good thing to do, and it’s a bad thing Wikipedia making a “holy narrative-correcting task force” to try to stop it, then sure. You can.

    • surph_ninja@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 day ago

      Now I’m thinking you didn’t actually read the article. The entire thing is bragging about massive efforts enforcing western narratives on Wikipedia.

      But considering your post history is a flood of western narratives, I understand how you wouldn’t be able to interpret that as a bad thing. You’re either a very enthusiastic volunteer in this effort, or getting paid for it.

      • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOP
        5·
        1 day ago

        But considering your post history is a flood of western narratives

        https://ponder.cat/post/962017/1196897

        https://ponder.cat/post/995769/1228100

        Actually… when I was looking for a good third one, a random question occurred to me. Do you think Trump represents a violent force of Western imperialism? Are you worried about what Trump will do to accelerate various US crimes across the world, notably including support for Israel in its current genocidal activities?

        • surph_ninja@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 day ago

          When Trump won the election in November, the State Department suddenly canceled all approved leave for their agents, and called them all back to DC. Ever since then, we have bore witness to a brutal Biden/NATO led assault on the entire world. The militarized state is trying to cram their planned world war into a three month campaign, because they fear Trump will cancel their war.

          So how can it be true that Trump will accelerate this brutality? While he is an authoritarian fascist, he’s also relatively isolationist, has called for defunding NATO, has called for bringing troops home & closing foreign bases. What do you believe would be a worse version of this? What more do you think Trump could do?

          NATO and the intelligence sector believe Trump will deescalate this when he takes office. What do you think you know that they don’t? Why don’t you let them in on it?

          • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOP
            5·
            1 day ago

            Ever since then, we have bore witness to a brutal Biden/NATO led assault on the entire world

            Ah yes, who could forget the NATO bombings that have been rocking the capitals of… where are they brutally assaulting, again? When did the world war start? My news is so full of propaganda that I must not have been aware of all the assaults that have been taking place over the last two months. Maybe they’re all planned to happen in the next couple of weeks. Where are they planned to take place?

            I am not at all surprised that you are suddenly in favor of the behavior of Western governments when Trump is the one creating the behavior. I’ll be back in touch when he starts putting brown people in camps. For real, I really will be.

            I think I’ve exhausted my desire to continue this conversation. It was fun though.

            • surph_ninja@lemmy.world
              2·
              1 day ago

              Yeah, clearly you’re not paying attention. We just took over Syria, and even after our regime change we’ve been obliterating their military infrastructure, dropping massive bombs on their cities (nuclear material detected with at least one), and have been destroying their civilian infrastructure. We’re also now in open warfare with Yemen, as NATO/US/Israeli forces are positioning against Iran.

              At the same time, the western governments have ramped up their crackdown on dissent against these actions, and we’re seeing many more journalists and activists jailed or killed.

              Thank you for admitting you haven’t noticed.

              I don’t support Trump fascism. I don’t support any fascism. I’m pointing out you support Biden brand fascism, which is why you haven’t noticed Biden has caged and deported 250% more people than Trump. You don’t care, so long as the people you like are at the helm of this brutality.