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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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[–] acosmichippo 46 points 1 month ago (1 children)

sometimes I wonder if it's even worth acknowledging some of these more ridiculous lies.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It isn't.

Acknowledging them with anything more than "you're weird" just give the lie oxygen.

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

I agree. I really wish that when ~~Biden~~ Trump was going off on the stolen pets that were eaten, Harris would have asked Trump if he was okay and told the audience that we needed a psychiatrist to administer Trump the MoCA again.

edit: Oops.

[–] acosmichippo 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think you mean Trump instead of Biden there. But yeah I kind of wish Harris would hit harder on how it's a blatant fear mongering lie instead of leaving it up to the milquetoast moderators.

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

Thanks! I corrected it 👍

[–] Tarquinn2049 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The fact that they can't believe a person can successfully respond to questions without someone else whispering the answers in their ear does not speak well for them.

Maybe Trump should wear audio earrings, if that is even a thing that exists.

[–] acosmichippo 3 points 1 month ago

not only a person but a career attorney. just blatant sexism and racism.

[–] 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.

[–] ThePantser 7 points 1 month ago

Trump was wearing a bandaid earpiece, but the only thing playing was the sounds of women and children suffering.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I was talking to a friend about this. We both agreed that with current technology, IF they wanted to use earpieces, they would be so tiny and far enough in the ear, that we would never see it.

[–] Nuke_the_whales 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

She was wearing Tiffany earrings. Another article showed the side by side of her earrings and the tiffany ones and it's an exact match

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

Pfft, like Tiffany couldn't make a pair of audio earrings, whatever the fuck that is supposed to be.

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

I would like a pair of diamond audio earing please.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

With blackjack and hookers

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

I mean the idea is simple, add wireless and audio output to earrings. We already have wireless earbuds, just cut down the fat on them. Less battery because it doesn't need to last 10 hours.

Didn't happen, but not that hard to make for our current companies.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Even so, why would it matter?