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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You absolutely have a right to take a stand as to that summary. That summary is a summary of an incredibly stupid point of view, and I think it is fair to say so, whatever the race of the person who is supposedly holding it.
You should always prioritize self-care to the extent that you need to. That's a given. That is actually, as far as I can tell, the point of the Essence article, which to me (unlike this article) makes perfect sense: Definitely not that they should not protest right now or anything, because doing so would be a favor to a bunch of people who haven't earned in who now need to go on the back burner or something, but that black women just like anybody need to find ways to keep things moving forward, and also find ways to take care of themselves while they do it and make sure they're doing that.
The idea that that means "sitting out" the protests now until the next horrifying thing starts happening to them because of what Trump is putting into action, once it is maybe too late to stop it, is bonkers.
Here's an excerpt:
This is just fucking gibberish. The BLM protests accomplished a ton of good progress. No one I know outside of MAGA people who are cloaking what they really think, tries to say that they were "problematic" or "emphasized identity." Who are these observers who think that the current round of protests has accomplished more than BLM, or has this particular crazypants diagnosis for why? They are not named. That reference to nebulous "observers" who apparently hold some nonsensical but convenient point of view, so that the supposed view can be repeated and given some authority without the author needing to defend it, is actually a key example of why I felt like I needed to post this article in this community.