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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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[–] Iheartcheese 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Now that I think of it, I have never seen Kamala Harris eating. Why? Because she eats cats probably. Otherwise she would proudly publicise her eating habits.

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

Which is how we know that Biden only eats vanilla ice cream cones, Obama eats only Dijon Mustard, Trump eats only hamberders and Goya products, and Jimmy Carter only eats peanuts.

Everyone else? Cats and dogs

[–] Iheartcheese 3 points 1 month ago

The true deep state

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We are all ~~domestic terrorists~~ cat eaters

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

...on this blessed day.

Speak for yourself

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No. I'm lazy. You speak for me.

For the next 15 minutes, @[email protected] is my official spokesperson. Anything they say, I endorse and double.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Oh wow, true story time:

Last week I had to go to my mom's house to pick up half of a cat from in front of her house. Something had eaten most of the rest of it, but its head was still in pristine condition.

That was a nightmare trying to get everything onto a shovel so that I could quickly bag the whole thing in one go. I still can't believe how clean and intact most of the torso bones were...

That poor kitty...

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

Oh shit! I just got it! I said "endorse and double," so you said "halves of cats," meaning whole cats.

Fucking hilarious. That was a slow burn with a really enjoyable finish. Bra-fucking-vo.

I've been quietly chuckling at this for about 5 whole minutes now.