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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He’s an idiot whose only skill is using his frankly disgusting access to money and power to steal ideas from actual geniuses and calling them his own.
When he first became famous, I thought he might be smart. Then he started talking about things in my field of expertise and I realised he had no idea what he was talking about. Since then, I’ve heard engineers and designers in other fields say the same thing.
I’m actually angry he gets away with this. I’ve struggled to make ends meet, and I have high level skills – it’s infuriating that a moron can make bank in my field by pretending and being a fucking sociopath.
"Actual geniuses," my ass! Musk steals his ideas from decades-old issues of Popular Science. Electric cars? Spaceships? Hyperloops? That's like the to-do list of every geeky 12-year-old!
Even your disparagement gives that piece of shit more credit than he deserves. I can't really blame you, though: it is genuinely difficult to find words emphatic enough to express how unexceptional and unworthy of accolade he really is.
To be fair, he has some things going for him: the uncanny ability to get away with false advertising and stock manipulation.
Somehow, "{Super far-fetched thing} will be available NEXT YEAR!" manages to keep working despite the clear history of his promises being even more overhyped and overpromised than even Peter Mollineaux's.
I watched a video some time ago where he was showing the evolution of SpaceX rockets. At one point he referred to "the fiddly bits" on the outsides of the rockets.
I mean the man is 5 or 6 distilled PowerPoints away from the people who actually know something. This coupled with the fact that he is clearly seagull management personified I'm gob smacked the (shitty) iron man image continues.
He's likely paying for this PR fluff to be written.