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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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What's True

Vance was indeed given the name James Donald Bowman at birth, after his biological father …

What's False

… but, officially, he has only changed his name twice, not three times. The first name change was the result of his adoption by his stepfather. The second name change was one he requested as he was about to graduate from Yale Law School, a year before he got married.

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[–] Sterile_Technique 82 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nice of his peers to refer to him by his chosen name instead of his birth name without any grief though! I wonder if there's a lesson in here somewhere... 🤔

[–] grue 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah: it's that white cis male privilege will be enforced at all costs.

[–] FancyManacles 23 points 2 months ago

This points out one of the evilest parts of the Republican party and that is the fact that their political opinions have nothing to do with their actual beliefs and are only a way for them to hurt other people. At the end of the day they don't care if someone changes their name or what bathroom they use, but talking about these things in relation to transgender issues is a way for them to cause pain to others which is the only point to anything for Republicans.

People that say things like "I'm not a conservative but I'm voting for Trump/Bush/Romney" are really saying they're only voting for the fascist parts and don't really care about the fiscal policy as long as they get to cause undeserved pain to someone. And remember, if it's not undeserved pain then they're not into it. It's must be undeserved or at the very last disproportionately cruel.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

All name changes seem perfectly reasonable to me. Couch copulation, not so much.

[–] aberrate_junior_beatnik 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There are so many reasons to hate JD Vance, but changing his name to match the name of the person who raised him is not one of them.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This has nothing to do with hating him, just pointing out his hypocrisy when it comes to someone choosing their own name.

[–] aberrate_junior_beatnik 4 points 2 months ago

That's more than fair, and I should have thought of that!

[–] Erasmus 4 points 2 months ago

Smells like another Kid Rock. Brought up rich and trying to pretend you are from poor country folk to get votes or in Rock’s case sell albums.

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

JD Vance is the modern equivalent of Sarah Palin screwing over John McCain's chances at winning.

[–] SirSamuel 2 points 2 months ago

What do you mean modern? That was only four years ago. Right?

[–] TheAristocrat 1 points 2 months ago

In all fairness, the GI bill covered all his tuition.