• urshanabi [he/they]
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    7 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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      7 months ago

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

      It’s not explicit coordination.

      • 新星 [they/them/🏳️‍⚧️]
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        7 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