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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its part of the problem. general populace still isnt impacted and people still think they can wait it out. it literally took a pandemic for people to sit up and give a shit last time and half of them were pissed because they had to wear a mask.
look at how our representatives are acting. zero shits given. no organizing on their part etc. I went to the protests the other week, it was the standard group of people who show up at every protest, the old women from the suffrage movement and LGBT+ align individuals. very small groups.
its unfortunate it but here we are. I'm just going to continue doing my shit trying to get my old antifa group back up and running, but it'll take a bit since we literally have to connect without digital comms initially and re-establish everything we shut down. But our little groups are not going to be sufficient for this, so most activity will be muted until the populace gets active.