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Fediverse vs Disinformation

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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:

  1. No disinformation
  2. Posts must be relevant to the topic of astroturfing, propaganda and/or disinformation

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[–] Bwaz@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

When a group pf people all share the same one brain cell, they tend to repeat each other.

[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If public services are underfunded, why are Trump and the Reds cutting those services?

[–] psud@aussie.zone 5 points 1 month ago

That's why they failed to save practically any money after cutting those services

They cut some incredibly cheap incredibly effective programs

The big money goes to big companies and petrochemical companies

[–] drapeaunoir@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] kautau@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Glad someone else thought of this. No different. Just manufactured messaging by those invested in destroying the nation for neofuedalism

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

Scruffy astroturfers!

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

If you want less immigration then stop foreign policies that help fuck up other countries. Not saying that is the only cause but in the long run probably more effective than rounding up random people from the street.

[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Always was.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

It's the slow boiled frog. People on the outside notice but the fox viewers don't.

[–] frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

"Hey can I copy your homework?" "Sure just change it a little so the teacher won't know"

The homework:

[–] Manmoth@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 month ago (4 children)

They are all part of the broader complex of "new media". You have these guys on the right. Tim Poole is centerish. I don't know much about the left side of the controlled media sphere but I'm sure they exist and are funded by the same people. If anyone listens to these guys they don't value their own time.

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