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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it will always amaze me how several users just have the time to post news articles CONSTANTLY. it's to the point that ive started blocking users just because 5 different people will post the same articles about an event, all to their own selection of 5 communities (with some overlap) all of which get shown on the all feed. it also doesn't help that I don't generally come to Lemmy to get depressed from recent news when I already get plenty of that from coworkers and family.
this is not to say that I think its necessarily unhealthy to have such power users, its just very.... very..... very....... not my cup of tea
upon looking again, it does concern me that these people all stopped posting around similar times, which in my eyes seem to be between trump's election results and him actually coming into power. could totally be paranoia though this is all just speculation
I don’t take issue with power posters per se, just ones that are indistinguishable from glowies.