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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So all that's actually happened is a $20 billion contract was officially disbursed - as in, transferred to a private installation. So the contract is closed.
Just to be clear, I don't believe there's enough gold bullion in existence to represent 20 billion; besides, is gold did go missing from fort Knox, we all know trump stole it.
Final note: there's no way in hell 20 billion isn't just a made up amount. Maybe 20 million? But they been caught just straight up lying about total monetary amounts.
Well, there's certainly enough gold bars to cover that amount, gold is stupid expensive. You're right about the rest though.
There's about $290 billion in bullion in fort Knox, which is something like 4.5 metric tons.
I think the 20 billion is the full amount that was appropriated in the IRA, to be disbursed to various NGOs. Part of which went to the specific organisation lead by Abrams. At least that's what I got by paying attention to the specific weasel words used in the 'article', chances are they're outright fabricating stuff and even that's a lie, of course.
You clearly have more patience than I to read it that closely, lol. Still, a billion dollars is an inconvenience amount; it's not impossible that 20 billion was the total...but that number raises suspicion.
I skimmed it and still gave up half way, it is pure drivel.