I see a lot of posts lately, mainly in ‘world news’ communities, that when I investigate their source, I cannot come to any other conclostion that purposefully spreading of fake news and propaganda on lemmy.
I love this platform and want to see it thrive, but the fact that these kind of posts can so easily populate my feed is disturbing.
And not only the modern one. The truth is the first victim of any war.
The new twist is we can see the efforts from both sides, historically we would only enjoy the propaganda of one side at a time until the war was over.
Even though, only the winning side would draft the “official” version of the events. The “real” “truth” would appear only decades later, when everyone involved is dead (or almost) and independant research can happen. E.g. a former French “résistant” recently confessed his group summarily executed a bunch of captured German Soldier in 1944. Some of the members went in politics afterwards, preventing any investigation to take place.
Not to excuse those crimes but the resistance weren’t soldiers so they can’t commit “war crimes” as such. They can commit crimes and morally wrong things, they just aren’t bound by the conventions of war unless they are captured by a nation that is bound by international law and even then they can’t be charged for it they just can’t be murdered when captured themselves.
You are right, and it is some kind of improvement. Or at least it feels like it.
But never forget that sides are sides. You still don’t get any balanced (or objective) truth from the center of the battlefield, even if they make it look like it.