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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I've lived in Britain for over a decade until Brexit.
I can guarantee you that the British Press, including the BBC, is one of the most propagandistic in Europe by a long margin and pretty close to the American Press (just go check how the BBC or the Guardian spin news about Iran and then check the NYT - they all use the exact same Manufacturing Consent techniques as often exposed in !ManufacturingConsent@lemmy.ml
It's not by chance that the British Press is literally the one least trusted by the locals in Europe.
From what I've heard the German press is also highly propagandistic and even Racist, especially Politico (which is owned by the same people as the Bild newspaper, a very right-wing tabloid).
Shit, even in my own country - Portugal - some of the press is doing exactly the same use of differently charged words depending on the side, unquestioning trust of sources on one side but not the other and selective reporting as the BBC (though some is impeccably unbiased).
Your best bet is to determine yourself how much a news source is by looking for things like use of differently charged words and passive versus active for different sides or clearly different implied trust for sources depending on the side (for example).