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 think the best way to dismantle the arguments/worldviews like this is to stick to the simplicity of good nature and to openly challenge them for having no heart, no love, and if they accept those descriptions of themselves, stop talking to them and broadcast their self admitted behavior for fencesitters.
They have to fall back on a hatred of the weak, it is core to their ranking of who is worthy of empathy and who is not. Without it these people have no compass.
This is never truly a majority popular way of being for human beings. Let your conversation be witnessed by a crowd of neutral people and you win.