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submitted 5 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

Russia was definitely watching the results of the EU election.

French President Emmanuel Macron’s shock decision to call a parliamentary election following his party’s crushing defeat in the EU polls, as well as the success of the far right in countries across the Continent, made headline news.

With Macron recently spearheading an initiative to deploy Western forces to Ukraine, it is perhaps unsurprising that the tone was gleeful.

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[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Simple mechanisms for flagging/reviewing misinformation would be helpful but we've gone in the completely opposite direction with Musk's shittified twitter and every platform being scared to provide a dislike count so sll the scummiest shit just floats to the top with zero indication of controversy

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 4 points 5 months ago

If anything, I think Musk's takeover of twitter has thankfully removed a lot of the power that the platform had. People don't trust it anymore, and they never should have.

[-] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 4 points 5 months ago

Simple mechanisms for flagging/reviewing misinformation would be helpful

It would be helpful but it would only be a band-aid on the sucking chest wound of economic issues. There's also the very real problem of who gets to declare something as "misinformation". There's absolutely no way I would entrust our Government with that power and I trust the private companies running Media and Social Media outlets even less.

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