Whether the people are partially to blame or not is a complicated topic. Both in the US and Italy, about half of the population were educated/smart enough to see through their propaganda. The right wing party still won though because they picked their target audience effectively and tailored their whole campaign around that audience.
Can’t wait for a c/LinkedInLunatics to be migrated from Reddit
So many people on LinkedIn are batshit insane
I’m not saying that Americans didn’t play their dirty tricks as usual, but it was Italian voters that elected Meloni, not the US…
Social media misinformation is far from being the largest cause. There are so many people living in villages and islands that aren’t educated, and fully believe the far right’s fairy tales about how they’re going to fix the system and restore things to how they used to be.
I agree about social media though, I think that the EU needs to give Meta, Google and Twitter an ultimatum: Fix your algorithms in order not to create echo chambers of misinformation otherwise you’re gone from every EU country.
I think some years back the EU passed a law that forbade paid lootbox type rewards, we need to see more of these measures in gaming of all kinds.