Asklemmy

47826 readers

1138 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 6 years ago

MODERATORS

Real time truth in high stakes politics, how to find it? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 days ago by InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

11 comments fedilink hide all child comments

So I was watching a bit of a discussion about the situation in Argentina and if their ancap president has been successful? Mostly it was libertarians calling it a victory because it makes them look good politically. It is also a style of doing things that is making its way into the US, as DOGE was inspired by the Argentine Admin.

While there are something that do seem to imply an economic recovery they did just get a huge bailout (not sure why a recovery that is doing so well needs one) as well as food insecurity, along with pensioners protesting.

Aside from this specific case that will be very polarizing; how do you try to discern in real time what is misleading?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

how do you try to discern in real time what is misleading?

That's really hard. Unless you're in a position where your opinion will have an influence (ie, you're a judge, cop, or protestor who can take part in the event), you might as well wait a couple of days for more information to come out.

We've done ourselves a massive disservice by subjecting everything to constant, immediate analysis. Most of the time, we can afford to wait and learn more.

[–] payhn@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

While I completely agree, I do have one counterpoint that the current US administration is employing to counter that tactic. Flood the zone with news story after news story of unrelated topics and it's massively more difficult to remember all of them or follow up on them all

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

Here in Canada we've been trying to keep tabs on Trump's tariff threats. At the start, our media was publishing headlines whenever posted about Canada/tariffs/etc. They seem to have given up on that (partially because Trump's been distracted recently), but I think readers tuned out.

Instead we're more focused on three current Canadian reaction, and the effects of whatever the current policies are. Tracking the day-to-day threats was almost information-free because Trump's whims are so variable.

I think that strategy makes more sense: track the long-term story, without doing constant breaking news about something that's likely to change soon.