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29 days agoBasically Homelander-Syndrome?
Basically Homelander-Syndrome?
I don’t know if anyone of you still looks at memes on 9gag, it once felt like a relatively neutral place but the site slowly pushed right wing content in the last years and is now infested with alt-right and even blatantly racist “memes” and comment-sections. Fels to me like astroturfing on the site to push viewers and posters in some political direction. As an example: in the span during US-election all of a sudden the war on palestine became a recurring theme depicting the Biden admin and jews as “bad actors” and calling for Trump; after election it became a flood of content about how muslims are bad people and we shouldn’t intervene in palestine…
At least i can finally give a good example when people ask me why i’m trying to have control over my online data. “i don’t have anything to hide” is very dependant on the current political climate…