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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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It might seem like a small matter, just a disagreement over whether a body of water should be called one name or another.

But it’s really about much bigger things: Trump-style intimidation, a clear violation of the first amendment – and the extent to which news organizations will stick together in each other’s defense, or will comply with the powerful for the sake of their own access.

Even more broadly, it is about Donald Trump’s wide-ranging effort to control the media and be able to spread propaganda and interfere with the flow of accurate information.

Visit us @ [email protected] for all the latest news on the topics of astroturfing, propaganda and disinformation.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago (2 children)

He's a narcissistic megalomaniac; he would like to control the entire world.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

And until someone stands up and physically stops him and his crew he will do his best to do just that.

[–] TheBat 3 points 2 days ago

Which is ironic because he's Putin's bitchboy.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

This is about them controlling the truth. They don't even have to change or make up new laws if they just rewrite the dictionary.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

he's blitzkrieging the media, making so much stuff happen at once, no one can keep track

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Classic Russian tactics... 'flood the zone with sh*t'. Adopted by Steve Bannon & co.

Intent is to make everyone so tired they give up.

[–] Zachariah 5 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Manufactured consent.

[–] SlopppyEngineer 4 points 2 days ago

They can just get the summary for Project 2025 and start checking things off. It's not a mystery unless they're being wilfully ignorant.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

We have always been at war with Eurasia

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

....duh, has anyone else read project 2025, or, even better, read the history of deutschland around 1933-45, or, good gracious, what were people talking about as nero burned rome, or, caligula debauched anything with a pulse?

ffs, anyone surprised by any of this has been most heinously disserviced of available resources.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I want to suggest if you live in a neighborhood of 1/3 acre properties: begin planning to convert the entire unbuilt property to some form of agriculture share and split growing responsibiity with willing neighbors be concerned and give aid to any in need accept that your local community starts the process to change the larger congress a person is not stupid, people are democracy only burns from the base up

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

I want to suggest that you start adding two spaces before you press enter if you want your line breaks to be maintained.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Studying the social psychology, the flow of how the third reich happened used to be popular. I guess not, now.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

No Marge, it’s deeper than that. This is him controlling the media. While the pearl clutching shit libs cry foul and the MAGAts writhe with glee at their pain, the cameras are turned on their slap fight and therefore devote less airtime to the actual dismantling this undercover foreign asset is doing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Don't think it started that way, but at this point this is a cheap way of identifying and marginalising overt opposing media organisations.

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

Duh.

It’s about Google following his whims.