this post was submitted on 27 Feb 2025
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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

I'd like to order a few thousand prints of these, please. I want to fill the advertising space around Boca Chica, and the major approaches to Tells plants, and in the airports he travels through. Paying for the advertising space will need crowd funding, but maybe some crowd sourced guerrilla advertising would work as well.

Oh, DC. Got to line the airport route.

[โ€“] Remember_the_tooth 9 points 10 hours ago