I started seeing people doing the same thing on Reddit and Lemmy.
Picture of Palestinian kid starving with a title calling for the readers to not forget.
Let me be clear here, I support the cause. But I don’t like manipulation.
This is kind of sketchy to me.
Is there is a current news/ research about this?
There is always a social media propaganda campaign going on. On just about any subject you can think of. Is this really the first time you’re noticing? You do know that governments, political parties and corporations employ people whose only job is to study and manipulate social media trends, right? What do you think a social media ‘influencer’ is?