

I don’t downvote them, but I am quick to judge someone is just looking for attention. Negative attention is still attention. I do not bother to check whether my assumption is correct and also don’t judge them, but just don’t want to get involved. I can imagine someone else chooses not to ignore but to downvote. I also wouldn’t upvote someone’s suicidal thoughts, so maybe I just don’t know how to deal with it either way
The headline makes it sound like this is a problem in all of Europe, while the article itself is writes about how Italian journalists are likely being targeted by the Italian government. Georgia Meloni often gets a pass because she works together with other European leaders, but she is (almost) as fascist as Orbán and Vučić. Le Pen, PiS, AfD the list of like-minded politicians is long and we cannot and should not allow them to target independent journalists or abuse publicly funded media to further their anti-democratic agenda.