Fediverse vs Disinformation
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:
- No disinformation
- Posts must be relevant to the topic of astroturfing, propaganda and/or disinformation
Related websites
Matrix chat links
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My take is this: Even if we're being charitable, saying it was unintentional, and I think it may have been enthusiasm, that "word" was still in his "vocabulary".
People that don't say N***** in casual conversation don't suddenly bust out with it. I don't come out with S*** when talking about Hispanic people, because I never use that word. Ever. Same with G*** for the Vietnamese. Those are words I understand, but do not use. Ever.
I'll be the last to police conversation and vocabulary, downvotes online and ostracization IRL should be enough, and I think it's become seriously nuts the last decade, but he's "speaking" the language he's accustomed to, plain as day.
Exactly. If someone pops out the n word at all, they've said it before, often enough that it's a habit they normally suppress.
A nazi salute is the same thing.
TIL that there are slurs for Hispanics and Vietnamese.
Yup. Tbh, there's slurs for pretty much any ethnic group other than a small range of what gets called "wasps", the White Anglo-Saxon Protestants. They're not the only ones that use slurs, but there's a surprising lack of them directed towards them. And none that carry any weight as a slur, if you want to include generic terms for white folks like honkey.
There's even slurs for ostensibly white folks from wrong ancestry, though how much weight they have is fairly low and tends to be regional.
Ain't it a great world we live in?