Fediverse vs Disinformation
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:
- No disinformation
- Posts must be relevant to the topic of astroturfing, propaganda and/or disinformation
Related websites
- EU vs Disinfo
- FactCheck.org
- PolitiFact
- Snopes
- Media Bias / Fact Check
- PEN America
- Media Matters
- FAIR
Matrix chat links
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Help spread the word on this, we need instance admins all over to help stop this asshole.
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dbzer0 admins
@db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com @Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com @RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.comlemm.ee admins
@EllaSpiggins@lemm.ee @sunaurus@lemm.eelemmy.blahaj.zone admins
@ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone @supakaity@lemmy.blahaj.zonebeehaw.org admins
@remington@beehaw.org @alyaza@beehaw.org @Gaywallet@beehaw.org @Lionir@beehaw.org @Penguincoder@beehaw.orgpawb.social admins
@crashdoom@pawb.social @natebluehooves@pawb.social @itsOasus@pawb.social @southernwolf@pawb.social @Spitfire@pawb.socialsh.itjust.works admins
@TheDude@sh.itjust.works @kersploosh@sh.itjust.works @imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works @InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.worksdiscuss.online admins
@jgrim@discuss.online @lazyguru@discuss.online @m_f@discuss.online @Rooki@discuss.online @MrKaplan@discuss.onlinelemmy.world admins
@ruud@lemmy.world @Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world @Rooki@lemmy.world @kersploosh@lemmy.world @MrKaplan@lemmy.world
I apologize for pinging all of you, this is a serious issue and it's faster to ping like this than to message everyone individually.
We banned him a few hours ago. In the future, please at least navigate to the major servers and check their modlogs before pinging the admins.
Admins usually notify other admins fairly quickly about stuff like this. But in this case the other admins (myself) aren't going to know if the user had already banned by one of our colleagues, so we end up having to check multiple times.
It's all good though, I appreciate your urgency.
Oh I see, sorry I didn't check sooner. I'll try to check the modlog next time (hopefully there isn't a next time).
There will be. You can check https://matrix.to/#/#defense:lemmy.world
What the hell? Why are you making random unfounded bad faith accusations towards me. I pinged the ones that came to mind, mainly the ones I know and also are admins of the ones I'm part of.
In case you're wondering the reason I didn't ping hexbear or lemmy.ml is the same reason I didn't ping literally any others than the ones listed. They didn't cross my mind when I was thinking of teams to ping.
You really need to work on not inferring bad faith in others' actions and pouncing on them preemptively. It makes it seem that your actions are in and of themselves in bad faith.
CC: @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com @Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com
This type of behavior you are engaging in right now with me is absolutely in bad faith.
If you think that jumping on me and accusing me of omitting instances from my mentions intentionally, and overall having a hostile tone towards me with zero provocation is "level-headed" or "good-faith" then we have some very different definitions of those terms. You have not acted level headed from the moment you replied to me, and frankly your behavior towards me has been extremely hostile. You haven't acted in good faith since you first replied to me.
I mean, your earlier comments in this exact thread look to be spreading disinfo:
"most tankies don't jump straight to the transphobia"
This seems to imply that some do jump straight to transphobia while others are still transphobic, but less obvious about it.(ie they don't jump directly for transphobia but end up there eventually.
Is that the implication you intended? because I can see why that would piss off an admin on one of the instances with the biggest trans communities on Lemmy.
Either way you were literally posting about "the tankies" on this thread but then at the same time they "didn't cross your mind" when it came to asking people to address the original issue. Looks like bad faith behavior to me.
Yeah the implication is that tankes don't gravitate towards transphobia which is why I think it is a troll who's fucking with us or trying to get attention or hurt people.
I'd agree that it looks like some Nazi trolling, the transphobia makes it stick out like a sore thumb.
It oftentimes takes me a few passes to get what people mean too. I was mostly trying to point out why I could see reasoning for her to come in hot in the thread.
yeah I guess I can kind of see how that can be misinterpreted now. I guess it goes to show how different people can read things completely differently in their head.
ADHD brain go brrrrrrr.
I don't know what you expect me to do here by pinging me.
"How can I make this about me?"
-Average Tankie Triad User
He was only pinging the important ones.
Oh my god, I just realized I didn't ping ani.social either. It's almost like I just pinged a handful of instances' admin teams and didn't ping all instances out there. This idea that CARCOSA has that I am deliberately omitting instances from my pings for nefarious reasons is very stupid indeed. They're just looking for reasons to flip out at me and others and just start drama in general. 🙄
Me neither. If the mods don't respond to or address this issue by tomorrow I will begin advocating defederation from lemmy.sdf.org because if they aren't willing or able to moderate hate speech, then they aren't a safe instance to be on or be around.
Yeah, seems like they need a spare emergency admin or two in different time zones. Hell, every instance that doesn't require approval to create communities needs those, imo
Most instances with a larger userbase really need to have a 24 hour team, "mods are asleep" should never happen on a server with a large userbase. The disruptions that can cause in cases like this are unacceptable.
Yeah it definitely is. They should be way more attentive when it comes to moderation, as well as maintenance of their services. I still remember having to beg them to update from 0.19.2 to 0.19.3 because the instance was broken and not federating (couldn't even log in) it was so difficult to get them to do that. They did do it but it shouldn't have been anywhere near that hard.
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Thank you for bringing it to our attention, already banned from Lemmy.world, will communicate with the other admins to see if more action is warranted.
I don't mean to backseat moderate but is a 7 day ban really the best option in this situation as opposed to a permanent one with content removal? I mean this isn't an average scenario, this is an extremist user spreading hate and disinformation, and for that they get only a 7 day ban?
This is a temporary measure until I can discuss it futher with the other admins. I think they'll agree a perma-ban is warranted.
Ok that's good to know. I sure hope they do.
Just a follow-up, they are now perma-banned. Thank you (:
Glad I could help.
Thank you king/queen/chief!
It's good they're now banned
Geen probleem, mnr/mvr/overig taalnazi.
Read the reply I wrote you. Like actually wrote you. Not the report I wrote to this community's mod team and this instance's admin team for lashing out at me and accusing me of omitting instances in bad faith.
It's a bad faith accusation when you baselessly infer or imply malicious intent. Emphasis on baselessly.
This is starting to sound like sealioning...
I'm not spreading disinformation, now you're just straight up lying about my actions and intentions. So with that, we're done here. Enjoy your community ban.
Contact the admins at dubvee.org they have a system of cross instance banning and tracking down to an art form. That’s assuming you can contact them if you are not banned.
I didn't think to reach out to them since they're a smaller instance, they likely don't even see this whole thing happening. This is more an issue for the bigger admins since they're the ones who will ultimately stop the spread. So I didn't really want to bother them with something that they probably can't even see.
Appreciated!
Appears they’ve already been dealt with.