I left reddit about 2 years ago before the oct 7th attacks, so I never really saw the reaction over there. I didn’t expect it to be like lemmy, reddits always been a bit islamaphobic and quick to take up US state department propaganda, but I assumed by now though that since most on there are liberals under 50 that theyd be somewhere around “not a genocide, but Israel is committing atrocities and a ceasefire would be good.” on the issue
But someone was calling out reddit in a thread about the flotilla being bombed and I looked into it and the thread on worldnews was full of denials and calling it a false flag. Looked more into worldnews and every thread on the issue is full of zionist saying things along the lines of “anything is justified to get rid of the evil terrorists hamas” or downplaying the atrocities.
Is this just a worldnews issue? Is it the mods over there? Is there some other sub with more pro-palestine news that split off? Has it been like this for the whole conflict?
I think that Reddit/Lemmy style communities are incredibly easy to rig in a couple of different ways. If you care, you can work your way into a mod position pretty easily and then start to subtly mold the conversation. Reddit is pretty easy to flood fake votes into. And, of course, anyone can make any unlimited number of accounts and say literally whatever they want to. So, if you want to start an incredibly profitable business, you can just do that all day and sell your services to anyone who wants to spread pro-Israel (or pro whatever) messaging. I think more than a little handful of people have already done this, Reddit is one of the biggest targets in the world for it.