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.
Same as instance rules, plus:
In November 2024, U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida withdrew his name from consideration as President-elect Donald Trump's attorney general, as federal investigators said they discovered payments he made to a number of women in exchange for sex.
"Women"? Is there something preventing journalists from calling 17 year olds children, like they are?
There are states where you are considered an adult at 16 and can be tried as such.
Though I'm sure the media is thinking they need to treat Gaetz with kid gloves.
Yes, it's called monopoly by the parasite class on media
They're just so used to it, statistically just about all the prostitution in the US is minors who are being abused, and sex trafficed. Most come out of the foster system, most children don't have to worry about aging out of family care, and the gov has a lot of really shitty little loopholes to cut foster kids out of any benifits as quick as they turn 18 if they still qualify for anything. This is a passive system that everyone in power is not willing to discuss or deal with it, police have been fighting legislation that says they can't just have sex with minors who are being sex trafficed to arrest them for prostitution. And they even fight against legislation that says they can't have ''consensual'' sex with people they arrest or are to guard. The news also wields power and they also don't want to talk about it, or report on it.
I can't wait for his creepy face to start fading from my memory just like that George Santos character.
Rafael Cruz next please
I can't decide if Gaetz or Mike Johnson has the more punchable face.
I feel like for me, Johnson's is more punchable, based solely on the fact that I don't want to make physical contact with Gaetz.
If I can use some intermediate object like a baseball bat? Gaetz all day.
Nothing to stop trump from keeping quiet and still appointing this ghoul during his recess appointments.
He'll get some job for sure. Maybe not AG anymore, but something.
How dare you talk about George Anthony Devolder Santos like that? I'm cryin rn
Ssshhh !! You know Trump's not done with appointments yet, right?
Wow, what an asshole
He defended his vote in a Facebook live video in December 2017, saying, "Unless there is an overwhelming, compelling reason that our existing agencies in the federal government can't handle that problem, I vote no because voters in Northwest Florida did not send me to Washington to go and create more federal government. If anything, we should be abolishing a lot of the agencies at the federal level like the Department of Education, like the EPA and sending that power back to our state governments."
"To be fair, little Matty always was a bit of a grammar nazi." - Mrs. Henderson, grade 3