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I'm enjoying Lemmy so far, for the most part.

Everything here is pretty good save for the fact that all the news and politics I can find is dominated by the same few accounts.

Half or more of the accounts have a very clear agenda. They modify headlines. Lie. Spread disinformation. And generally are just extremely toxic groups.

It doesn't seem to be a secret here either. And moderators appear to have no interest in putting a stop to it.

So, where are you subbed to for reliable news and US/Global politics?

This group all seem to have multiple accounts on multiple instances.

I almost pointed it out in my first thread here, but it wasn't clear at first what was going on.

If you look a little closer, you'll see they post a lot wild shit there. But, they also spam a lot of their stuff all over Lemmy without the lemmygrad.ml instance.

They post altered articles and inflammatory disinformation at a rate faster than even some of the bots can compete with.

About a week now since I joined Lemmy. It seemed to me at first that place like this, where the tech knowledge prerequisites are a little higher than Reddit or Twitter, and being a lot of Reddit refugees, would be a bit of a liberal haven.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not against discourse, although these days that is trying at best. But, in the last few days I've been running into a lot of bullshit MAGA style nonsense on Lemmy.

And, I gotta say, that's a bit disappointing.