Petersson@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 hour agokurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel / Destroying the Internetwww.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square235fedilinkarrow-up1737arrow-down137file-text
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minus-squareJoshuaFalken@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down3·1 day ago They accepted, and continue to accept a great amount of money from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. It’s interesting how any false narrative starts with a granule of truth. Kurzgesagt was indeed provided $570,000 in 2015. That money was paid out across the following four years. They have not continued to accept any amount of money from the Gates foundation.
minus-square☂️-@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down5·1 day agoyou basically confirmed the narrative isn’t false.
minus-squareJoshuaFalken@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·11 hours agoSorry, I didn’t think the word ‘continued’ would have needed underlining for anyone that could read what I wrote. Using a piece of factual information to prop up false information within the same sentence is how false narratives take hold.
minus-square☂️-@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 hours agothat’s not how i read it at all. no misinformation here. see, the fact they took money to publish critical misinformation about climate change is not a joke. it should take more than an “i’m sowwy” to fix their reputation. as it justifiably should.
It’s interesting how any false narrative starts with a granule of truth.
Kurzgesagt was indeed provided $570,000 in 2015. That money was paid out across the following four years.
They have not continued to accept any amount of money from the Gates foundation.
you basically confirmed the narrative isn’t false.
Sorry, I didn’t think the word ‘continued’ would have needed underlining for anyone that could read what I wrote.
Using a piece of factual information to prop up false information within the same sentence is how false narratives take hold.
that’s not how i read it at all. no misinformation here.
see, the fact they took money to publish critical misinformation about climate change is not a joke. it should take more than an “i’m sowwy” to fix their reputation.
as it justifiably should.