I’m not 100% convinced the NHS truthers sharing the near identical message are actual bots and not just people who see themselves as online political activists who, when they see the Tories show no regard for truth, are happy to cut and paste messages they think might cut through
Yeah, there’s definitely a lot of bot activity there, but have also seen lots of slightly edited versions from real accounts and people admitting “Oh I just pasted from FB”: just think a straight bot narrative ignores real accounts happily pushing it too
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I guess the “paediatric nurse friend” functions as the “No 10 source” and spurs people to share without regard to truth.
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It’s just really toxic. We need real journalism that people trust and will go to. Hard to know how to respond to something like this when we know debunking isn’t very effective.
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