Fediverse vs Disinformation
Pointing out, debunking, and spreading awareness about state- and company-sponsored astroturfing on Lemmy and elsewhere. This includes social media manipulation, propaganda, and disinformation campaigns, among others.
Propaganda and disinformation are a big problem on the internet, and the Fediverse is no exception.
What's the difference between misinformation and disinformation? The inadvertent spread of false information is misinformation. Disinformation is the intentional spread of falsehoods.
By equipping yourself with knowledge of current disinformation campaigns by state actors, corporations and their cheerleaders, you will be better able to identify, report and (hopefully) remove content matching known disinformation campaigns.
Community rules
Same as instance rules, plus:
- No disinformation
- Posts must be relevant to the topic of astroturfing, propaganda and/or disinformation
Related websites
- EU vs Disinfo
- FactCheck.org
- PolitiFact
- Snopes
- Media Bias / Fact Check
- PEN America
- Media Matters
- FAIR
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It's kidnapping when they don't have jurisdiction to seize ANYONE in that location, on those vessels. If I grab a random person off the street, force them into my car at gunpoint, make them watch two Toy Story movies of their choice, and then paid a taxi to bring them back to another city they're not from, it'd be (the silliest) kidnapping.
What are you doing to bring attention to the genocide? What messages have reached people around the globe written or orchestrated by your hand?
Stop being a crab, pulling others down into the bucket. All efforts towards peace and humanity are good efforts.
Again: I think this flotilla helps the people that are part of it, with there helplessness concerning the dire situation in Gaza. It also helps everyone who wants to say: “Look! Israel is even more evil than we thought!“. Which helps antisemites who sometimes „by accident“ say „the Jews“ instead of „the IDF“ or „Netanjahus fascist government“.
There are signs appearing on German shops again: „Jews(!) are not welcome here.“ There was a synagogue attacked in GB yesterday. Attacking Jews because of a fascist government in Israel is like beating up every guy called Vladimir because of Putins war on Ukraine. People are beaten because they wear a Star of David. That’s like beating people wearing green, because Hamas uses green headbands.
What actually helps, is writing letters after letters (not emails) to your local representative, telling them in clear but polite words what you think. The rightwingers in Germany do it all the time and the public broadcasting bends over backwards to appear „balanced“.
What may help is support the organisations that have at least to some degree access to Gaza and the West Bank.
What’s not helping, is putting a handful of truckloads of aid on boats with some lesser known stars and sending them on a journey that had no chance of ever reaching their proclaimed goal.
So, everyone is just supposed to sit down and twiddle their thumbs while Israel finishes off the rest of the Palestinian population and steals their land, saying "Oh, bummer, but it was inevitable"?
Why are you shifting the blame from israel? Many of the antisemitism act are direct result of israel genocide. You should blame israel who try to associate antizionism to antisemitism
I saw a video of gazan fishing ton of fish because israel intention was shifted to the flotillas
People who take part in these crimes are responsible for committing them. People who defend those crimes are guilty of defending them. No person is responsible for the crimes of the IDF and Israeli government just because this person is born in Israel or of Jewish descent.
I don’t go beating up Germans with Russian grandparents, because Putin is trying to eradicate Ukraine. It’s not their fault.
You don't get it. I do not justify it. I acknowledge that is it wrong and i also acknowledge the issue so we csn fine a solution to reduce hate crimes for everybody. Something that they don't tell you is that both antisemitism and antimuslims increased because of the genocide in Gaza
Well Israel isn’t stopping random boats or arresting random people. They had announced their intentions clearly and have not reacted on orders to stop. Look up international maritime law on blockades.
Israel can’t let people enter dangerous warzones. The actual aid organizations on the ground in Gaza coordinate with the IDF all the time to minimize danger. The flotilla maximizes danger to themselves on purpose.
If someone threatens to commit a crime and doesn’t stop when asked, they can be arrested before the crime happens.
Minimize danger by shooting unarmed starving people? What a fuckin joke.
It's not a crime to be in those water, it's not their port to be policing, it's not illegal for them to be in that area.. Their blockade is not legal and is not recognized or needed. What, Hamas has some kind of fleet of amphibious vehicles we need to be worried about swarming the coasts? No, Israel has firm control over that port through occupation?
The 'actual aid organizations' CAN'T GET THROUGH AND SAY ISRAEL IS PREVENTING THEM FROM SAVING LIVES AND ARE BEING FIRED UPON BY THE IDF..so, I don't know man, it sounds like an illegal blockade for an illegal genocide to kill humans they deemed to be illegal by birth.
I’ve never seen so much genocide apologia coming from someone claiming to be against genocide.
Nuance and complexity is too much for you apparently.
There's nothing to "nuance" here. Israel wants all the Gazan's driven out, killed, or in what are effectively concentration camps. All the rest is Israeli Hasbara. This isn't a failure of aid management. The shameful incompetence of the GHF is by design. Also FYI:
And maybe you should read this to get some more clarity on the situation:
So what proportion was "looted" by starving Palestinian civilians and what proportion was "looted" by Hamas? The article conveniently doesn't say, probably because Israel conveniently claims everyone they shoot at is Hamas.
Let me refer you to these (inconvenient for your narrative) follow up articles that debunk your claim:
The reason Palestinians are starving and being killed in Gaza and the West Bank is because that is what Israel's intention has been all along.
UN say aid is unsuficient and isrsel is comitting a genocide . They didn't even arrest isrseli blocking aid and destroy it
Ahyes, famously they have been very cooperative with aid organisations, so much so they set up they're own (Gaza Holocaust Fiundation), which was totally not another front to slaughter even more people.
Also, the danger is the israeli army, what fucking coordination? Please don't murder our aid workers like you do every time?
What are all these freakish zionists on fedi? Go dig a hole and crawl in it.
They kidnap gazan fishmen all the time