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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.

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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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The New York Times ever being perceived as progressive is the biggest scam ever. (lemmy.world)
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A great example of corporate/state propaganda. Go fuck yourself Bret.

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[–] _stranger_ 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You're choosing to ignore that the branch post you're referring to is responding to the root post about the New York Times.

Here's some facts, about the NYT (from when they were called op-ed pieces, it was changed in 2021):

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/03/insider/opinion-op-ed-explainer.html

The Opinion section operates editorially independently from the rest of the newspaper. It is the section’s unique mission both to be the voice of The Times, and to challenge it. The Op-Ed pages were born, in part, because of the closing of New York’s top conservative newspaper, The New York Herald Tribune. They were created to be opposite the editorial pages — and not just physically.

The funny part is that I think pretty much everyone hates them, and that's kind of the point. If you never read anything outside of your echo chamber, you'll never know how absolutely ridiculous some of these very widely believed opinions are.

[–] Aqarius 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, yes I am choosing to ignore it, because it's irrelevant to the point I'm making, because the point I'm making is that they're not there to break up the echo chamber, they're the second wall of it, and unless you make a special case for the NYT, they are neither exempt not unique about it.

[–] _stranger_ 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well I'm glad you're back on track talking about the subject at hand. Took you a while but you got there. Maybe don't take so many detours next time.

Regarding the subject at hand, I guess you're entitled to your own opinion then too, aren't you?

[–] Aqarius 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

...I'm sorry, I think you meant to post this in reply to a different post.

[–] _stranger_ 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Nope.

[–] Aqarius 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Are you sure you're not just confused again?

[–] _stranger_ 1 points 6 days ago

I'm just happy you agreed to stick to the topic.