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I mean that's clearly not the case. I'm swimming in anti-imperialist anti-US content.

That it doesn't lead to mass action and the end of the current state of the American regime is a domestic American population problem, not a missing information problem.

There is no poverty of information. The fact of the matter is a powerful section of the US population benefits from the current situation.

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“There is no poverty of information.”

Quite the opposite, in fact. But there’s a difference between the information being present somewhere, and a reasonable way to get that information in front of people in an actionable form.

We’re drowning in “information,” at present. But the mass media narratives that are most readily available distort things quite a bit for a lot of reasons. (Ratings, owner bias/interference, format.)

There is no poverty of information depending on your news bubble.

Everything is a news bubble though. People incur bias from anywhere. Wikipedia just, in general, has less spin usually than some private media outlet.

See, from my perspective, that is exactly the problem. The people pushing said "anti-imperialist, anti-US" content are often the same people that defend Putin's invasion of Ukraine. The reality however, is that these are niche bubbles empowered by the internet. Once we realise how harmful they are, they'll be moderated or cut off.

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