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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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[–] jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Yes, thankfully we gave the last admin the boot for the same shit its unfortunate that people thought these assholes were a good idea. But trump is doing exactly what he said he would. I wish democrats had an ounce of the willingness that trump does to meet their base's wants. Then we probably wouldn't be in this mess.