As someone who deals with this directly in my non-bluesky-meme-account life, Fox News articles on Facebook are my favorite petri dish for looking at concentrated disinformation campaigns.
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Example: When the CEO assassination was fresh, breaking news, the comments on Fox coverage (from ostensibly conservative followers) was almost universally in favor of the shooter. In fact, many called out Fox for being divisive in what seemed to be a uniting event.
Contrast to recent coverage, wherein Fox has been getting exclusive first access to information, and every post is immediately SPAMMED with an army of obvious bots calling for justice for the CEO, and denouncing the left for supporting such a thing.
Just one example. It's difficult for anyone, especially those without any kind of media training, to get a sense of the social landscape that surrounds them when every issue is astroturfed to hell by bad-faith actors.
For anyone looking in, it would be easy to assume that the average, middle-america, conservative was pro healthcare-CEO. Before 1000 pounds of bullshit got added to the stew, that didn't seem to be the case.
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