UK Politics

5429 readers

99 users here now

General Discussion for politics in the UK.
Please don't post to both !uk_politics@feddit.uk and !unitedkingdom@feddit.uk .
Pick the most appropriate, and put it there.

Posts should be related to UK-centric politics, and should be either a link to a reputable news source for news, or a text post on this community.

Opinion pieces are also allowed, provided they are not misleading/misrepresented/drivel, and have proper sources.

If you think "reputable news source" needs some definition, by all means start a meta thread. (These things should be publicly discussed)

Posts should be manually submitted, not by bot. Link titles should not be editorialised.

Disappointing comments will generally be left to fester in ratio, outright horrible comments will be removed.
Message the mods if you feel something really should be removed, or if a user seems to have a pattern of awful comments.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

tom@feddit.uk

GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk

flamingos@feddit.uk

frankPodmore@slrpnk.net

Reform UK voters least likely to see social media posts from family and friends, study finds (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 2 days ago by Valnao@sh.itjust.works to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

5 comments fedilink hide all child comments

top 5 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

The algorithms are actively focussed. Not only do they overtly promote facist, Nazi, racist, sexist users so that typical user see more hate, BUT brown (people like me) and black people are having this turn up in their suggestions too. I am overtly lefty and an active Greens supporter. I routinely post calling out the right wing morons and yes this includes so called "Labour". My feed suggestions are peppered with Farage, Robinson and other stupidity.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago

You respond to them hence the algorithm pushes their content at you.

[–] HermitBee@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago

I routinely post calling out the right wing morons and yes this includes so called "Labour". My feed suggestions are peppered with Farage, Robinson and other stupidity.

Of course they are. You've demonstrated that you will interact with right wing morons. They are giving you right wing morons.

[–] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 5 points 2 days ago

It's as if the Fediverse doesn't exist. So the report calls for pubic social media platforms not owned by big tech, eh?

[–] schmorpel@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 days ago

I was half convinced lefties online are gradually being made to suffer a shittier online experience by big tech. This kinda confirms it.