this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2026
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Fediverse vs Disinformation

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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:

  1. No disinformation
  2. Posts must be relevant to the topic of astroturfing, propaganda and/or disinformation

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[โ€“] happybadger@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I don't think I'd ever go this route if I had something to leak now. The only chance of getting something in the news would be to mass leak it to multiple major substack investigative journalists, individual TV and online news shows, and foreign news bureaus that aren't directly aligned with the US. There are plenty of people in those smaller and foreign outlets who'd risk their reputation/legal consequences publishing the biggest story of their career.

edit: Especially if they know it's a mass email where anyone else could break the story first.

[โ€“] Red_October@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

Yeah we would probably know if the guy who said he worked for Epstein was telling the truth by now if these guys would stop sending this stuff over to their propaganda department.