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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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[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 28 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (3 children)

Anyone have a link to the real story this is based on? This page is practically unintelligible. Are the gold bars metaphorical? What the fuck are they talking about?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/20/fort-knox-gold-donald-trump-elon-musk/79314407007/

They're talking about the gold at Fort Knox.

"We're going to go to Fort Knox, the fabled Fort Knox, to make sure the gold is there. If the gold isn't there, we're going to be very upset," Trump said, per a C-SPAN recording.

Now today's update is that "gold is missing" (I use quotes because it's so obviously untrue). And according to Trump it's the Democrats that took it. Always the democrats. Black female ones too.

As if politicians need to steal gold bars. They receive that as a gift from Egypt as a bribe maybe, but they don't steal from Fort Knox. Makes zero sense. They can just trade stocks with insider info like everyone in congress.

[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 18 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

If gold really is missing, the first two places I'd check are Trump's pockets and the Mar-a-Lago bathrooms next to the classified documents.

[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

He stole the gold during his first term and Ivana’s coffin doesn’t contain her.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 3 points 13 hours ago

He hid the gold by melting it and turning it into commodes.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 29 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

they're gonna rob fort knox.

sadly, i did not have that on this month's bingo card. (there wasn't room for it!)

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 18 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

According to the projection, they've already robbed it of $2 billion.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 9 points 18 hours ago

And not even in a cool way with lasers and henchmen in silver jumpsuits.

What a stupid world.

[–] WHARRGARBL@lemmy.world 18 points 18 hours ago

Let’s not forget that all their accusations are confessions.