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’re right, return2ozma is another example of similarity, except, like schizoidman, isn’t posting the same metanarrative almost exclusively.
Plenty of people post the same meta narrative constantly. Often in small niche communities, often devoted to things other than politics. But I have some bad news. This is what being a world power is like. You're going to get criticized and called out constantly.
Maybe you should view this as a good thing. You've made it! Now you're legitimately experiencing what many like yourself have subjected others to. Success right? The more power the CCP gets, the more they threaten their neighbors, the louder it's going to get. And the more valid concerns get dismissed the less good will there will be.
Respectfully I already have very little. With all the disrespect and counter meta narrative surrounding this issue. Legitimately I can give actual names of victims of CCP threats and oppression. And have. Legitimately only yesterday, it was hand-waved away as fantasy and somehow an appeal to Western racism? Fuck if I know. The way terms like sinophobia get tossed about so much as a deflection and defense causing it to lose almost all its meaning. Like Zionists have done with anti-Semitism.
No group with as much control or power as the CCP can always be the victim or good guy. That's not how it works. Whether or not a lot of the reporting surrounding China and the CCP is exaggerated or even maybe false. Part of that is the CCPs fault. With as flawed, lacking, and diminishing as press independence and freedom has been in Western spheres. It's utter absence under the CCP, is damning. Any sane person would ridicule someone for accepting the word of a bully exonerating themselves. But with China in some spaces it's demanded that we do so. Nope.