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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Ngl there is a lot of philosophical questions you would have to answer before even deciding to shoot or not.
"I am holding a gun for first time in my life what do I do"
"What if they were just recording a movie? The gun wouldn't be real tho.
What if I just misunderstood in general?"
"I don't want to kill someone but it's self-defense but they are disarmed do I just shoot in ankle?"
"Is this even legal? Will I get in jail?"
"Overall panic thoughts"
Like I can't know how situation feels but surely it's not as easy as "point the nuzzle and just fucking kill someone on your lunch break."
I was thinking the same thing when watching that video. The other thing I thought is what if they have another gun on them?
I thought this too. Like he points the gun at the guy but "I don't know how to use this" and "I don't know if I should use this" are clearly going through his mind ALL WHILE THE OTHER SHOOTER SHOOTS HIM TWICE (In the hand and the shoulder.)
Overall I think it's better that he didn't shoot him, in terms of "morals" or whatever, you got the gun off him, and thats all you were there to do. He was clearly fleeing after the incident, even though the shooter is an evil man, in that moment, he was unnarmed, pointing the gun at him was all that was needed.
Mission was accomplished by disarming him. Its not like he had a knife of was a kung fu master. He wasn't going to continue on a mass punching. If he was running; even better.
Shooting the other shooter might've been smart, but if you aren't kind of an asshole who's lived a life of violence; that could, yes, be really hard to execute or conceptualize in the moment.
Exactly. Shooting someone is hard. You have to train people to do it. This guy clearly was mostly concerned with saving life. It's really easy to imagine a scenario in which he charged and had no idea what to do when he got there