Bentley ,
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This is terrible:

"The spread of those anti-government narratives have an impact beyond people's computer screens and phones Skrepnek cited the case last year when B.C. wildfire fighters had to be pulled out from parts of B.C.'s Shuswap region following threats of violence and assault."

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/06/14/news/wildfires-climate-disinformation-problem

Seems we need the equivalent of a Clean Water Act to counter the pollution of disinformation on the streams of the interwebs.

Jam123 ,

@CelloMomOnCars @Bentley unfortunately that kind of thing would probably be unenforceable

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I know nothing about the tech of such enforcement, but I have heard that certain types of posts have been traced to troll farms: that suggests it's not an entirely intractable problem.

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