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You are downplaying "verifiably false information" as bias. I don't care your political leaning, you are not allowed to post undeniable lies. I don't think it's possible to convince you based on general instances of misinformation so I will just look at 1 page of misinfo from maga.place. If you can find anywhere near this level of blatant disinformation or hatred in 10 pages of c/politics, I will agree it's unfair to defederate.
https://maga.place/post/28015 Trump with his 2 democratic opponents as trash bags. Quality content that we need. What did I learn from this post other than Republicans good democrats bad
https://maga.place/post/28008 HAHA LOL SOCIALIST POLICIES ARE TERRIBLE!! (spreading propaganda that they themselves saw)
https://www.breakingthenews.net/news/details/65119109 No sources anywhere, just trust them
https://maga.place/post/26968 Posting a quote from the CEO of fox news knockoff Newsmax, not misinformation just a meaningless post quoting a far right commentator. Who gets paid more to have this opinion.
https://maga.place/post/26971 Hmm tucker Carlson is the leader of modern day Hitler youth. Because he is critical of Israel. Interesting thing to post! I also like hearing how people who think Israel should be criticized as the Hitler youth!
https://maga.place/post/27153 More misinfo, implying he got booted for his comments and not because trumps fcc head threatened to take action if he was not fired, also says "for his incendiary comments" when his quote, as he said himself, meant "they are trying to make it seem like it was a leftist and not a rightist, whether it's true or not." You can argue the 2nd point, 1st is blatant misinformation.
This is not even 1 page. If I saw any of this trash in my feed I would instantly block the whole community. 6/14 posts were either extremely biased trash with no information, or literally just false. Go ahead and find me anywhere close to that ratio of blatant garbage on ANY lemmy community (besides the already defederated tankie instances). Find me even 1 thing in 10 pages that is so clearly false or hateful or divisive. And keep in mind these are their N E W S sources doing this, not some random person.
Side note, I saw a post I thought was actually really high quality from maga.place, but I realized while reading it I really can't trust any facts in it because most of the things posted there are just false or misrepresented, so it's not unlikely what I'm reading now is too. I have almost never had that feeling in c/politics, and when I do I look at the comments and people call it out (and say to stop posting it unlike the MAGA instance)