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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More weird stuff from The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Check out the story, then answer this quiz before you read the spoiler: What happened here? What is the issue? Post your comment before reading the spoiler.

Spoiler

The issue is that he was one of the almost-all death row inmates who sentence was commuted to life in prison instead. He's not free. You would have to read further in the article than I suspect about 80% of people are going to read, though, in order to find that out. There is no indication in the headline, lede, or quite a ways past the lede that this falls into the "life in prison" category of Biden pardons, and not into the "free to go" category of Biden pardons. And the framing and word choice heavily implies that it's the second one.

I was actually going to post this, as a for-real news story, until I learned the punchline.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

I skimmed through the article and actually wondered what the relevance was to this community until I read your spoiler. It was definitely misleadingly headlined and written.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I got as far as the life-in-prison bit before closing the article and opening the comments. What a weird take to think that making someone live the rest of their life in prison is an insult to a victim. Only a blood-thirsty society would prefer their death.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

There are many reasons to be disturbed by capital punishment. These include agonising deaths witnessed in the US, wrongful convictions, the blatant discrimination of criminal justice systems that results in the disproportionate killing of ethnic minority offenders, and the use of the death penalty for non-violent crimes and political offences. In Myanmar, relatives of the executed men were reportedly denied access to their bodies. But underlying all of this is the broader understanding that continues to spread through the world: that states have no right to take the lives of citizens.

Couldn't have said it better myself, The Guardian from July 2022. Quite well put, to be honest.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/26/the-guardian-view-on-the-death-penalty-a-long-way-to-go

[–] teamevil 1 points 5 days ago

Oh that guys an absolute piece of shit ...there's an FBI files episode about his shit.