this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2024
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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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These morons don't even know the difference between "less" and "fewer".

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The schtick is that the cows write the advertisement saying things like "Eet mor chikin" (instead of burgers, which are cows), and it's spelled wrong because they're cows. Chick-fil-A sells mainly chicken.

I'm all for criticizing idiocy where it's due, but in this case it was likely done intentionally.