• Hillmarsh@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    I downvoted because the poster didn’t back up any of its claims and these kind of hit and run, insulting posts are getting more and more common. I am starting to suspect there’s a concerted effort by green energy shills to infiltrate these message boards and spread nonsense. We know there are organized efforts by bad actors to spam sites and spread discord and misinformation, and these kind of attacks have become so frequent that one really becomes suspicious. Green energy has big, institutional money behind it and a vested interest in lying to the public who subsidizes it about its viability, so there’s plenty of motive to misuse sites both large and small for this purpose.

    • eleitl@lemmy.mlOPM
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      7 months ago

      Good point. I doubt it’s yet astroturfing, could be just amplifying misinformation from renewable PR. Most people don’t have a good picture of energy use and raw materials extraction in the global context.