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:

No disinformation
Posts must be relevant to the topic of astroturfing, propaganda and/or disinformation

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Important note about a Nazi that is clogging up SDF with a disinfo campaign (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org to c/fediverse_vs_disinfo@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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@ashton1593@lemmy.sdf.org is spreading a disinfo campaign trying to rebrand horrible ideas as "not nazi." I don't know where else to warn people about this. We are pushing for an instance ban, but the admin at SDF tends to be slow to reach.

Edit: Look at the modlog. I beg of any instance admin that sees the ban and removal reasons alone, including a ban reason of "tranny" , I hope to hell they break your instance rules. You should instance ban this moron to keep the spread down.

Edit 2: It has been more than a day now with not even a "We will look into it." kind of reply from the admin. It may be time to look into defederation. We are effectively abandoned.

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Their comments and posts seem to have been removed from the parent instance now

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[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Okay wow so it’s been almost 24 hours. The admin’s last post was a year ago. Has anyone had contact with them since? What are the chances this instance is just running derelict?

Hoping I am wrong! But if I’m not SDF users might want to consider to start migrating. If the admin can’t be reached at all the next step other admins are gonna take is defederation.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

SDF is a very old, esteemed community that has existed long before Lemmy and the Fediverse.

24 hours is normal by its measure.

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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago

Nazis GTFO.

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