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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Maybe if either country's government would behave like a bags of dicks, people wouldn't have to be posting that stuff.
China is committing ge oxide in uyghurs, Russia is committing genocide in Ukraine, and those two valid accusations are just the tip of the iceberg
If you want less bad news about these two countries, it's simple: just remove their dictators, install ab actual democracy, and have them starting to respect human rights. It wouldn't be all needed, but it'd be a good start
Anything's possible when you make shit up kiddo
No.
Also no.
Neither has a dictator. One has an oligarch installed by fellow oligarchs, just like the US & Canada do, while the other was democratically elected.
One of them already has an actual democracy, while the other one has a bourgeois democracy, just like your country and mine do.
How about we get our own houses in order? Or have you forgotten about their complicity in an actual, ongoing genocide in occupied Palestine?
Yes.
Also yes.
Both have dictators, as is evident by their absolute or near-absolute hold on political power.
One has mock elections, the other has one party. Neither are a democracy, fairing even worse than a representative "democracy".
Fuck no. You can hold others to account while also holding yourself. We are capable of working on multiple things at once, we don't have to solve poverty before we can tackle the climate and so on and so forth.
You can deny the genocide all you want, but it is ongoing in Xinjiang and will be fully realised in Ukraine if Russia's territorial annexation is completed.
Hey, I'm back in Urumqi right now, still no genocide.
Do you also think Portland is a warzone?
I love how so many different independent organizations have verified what's happening to the uyghurs, and you're like "I'm a German in Berlin, 1939, and I can't see anything bad happening to the Jews!"
You do understand that the Nazi camps weren't exactly advertised to the people, just like China doesn't really advertise the uyghur detention centers?
You haven't seen the photos? The videos?
Or are you one of those "any evidence against my religious beliefs is forged!" types?
I've seen satellite photos of random warehouse they found on Google maps, circled in red that people who have never been here insist are concentration camps. That is the level of "evidence" we are dealing with here.
If you were an american who spent months in the places Jewish people lived in 1939, befriended, drank with them, went skiing, etc, you'd certainly learn about their struggles.
.... You really actually believe all this, don't you?
I'm just wondering options here. Mental illness, maybe? Lack of basic education? Paid shill? I mean, there are options to explain you, but none of them are very goo
You use a post from a Chinese controlled media outlet to show that there really isn't a genocide happening with the uyghurs, even when the rest of the word says there is? You prefer to believe the words of state media in a dictatorship over actual photo and video evidence? You prefer "good is bad, up is down" rhetoric over the actual testimonies of uyghurs themselves?
Yeah, I'll go with paid shill