this post was submitted on 06 Mar 2025
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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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

The talking heads really need to be the first things to go.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

We should sick The Talking Heads on the talking heads, and let them purge the propaganda machine. Issue Byrne, Frantz, Weymouth, and Harrison licenses to kill. On second thought, maybe not Byrne; who knows what he'd actually do. David Byrne is how I describe Chaotic Neutral to non-gamers.