this post was submitted on 12 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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[–] acosmichippo 46 points 1 month ago (1 children)

sometimes I wonder if it's even worth acknowledging some of these more ridiculous lies.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It isn't.

Acknowledging them with anything more than "you're weird" just give the lie oxygen.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I agree. I really wish that when ~~Biden~~ Trump was going off on the stolen pets that were eaten, Harris would have asked Trump if he was okay and told the audience that we needed a psychiatrist to administer Trump the MoCA again.

edit: Oops.

[–] acosmichippo 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think you mean Trump instead of Biden there. But yeah I kind of wish Harris would hit harder on how it's a blatant fear mongering lie instead of leaving it up to the milquetoast moderators.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Thanks! I corrected it 👍