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
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How's that lake America going?
Apple Maps still shows the incorrect name for Lake Ontario, and the Gulf of Mexico.
However, CoMaps shows the correct names for both. Yay CoMaps FTW!!
That really just depends on the convention of whatever the mapping software is. Openstreetmap has a "name=*" block for places, but it can also have "official_name=*", in addition to many other language names. Generally, software to actually display the map isnt going to show all of the names cause that would be a mess, but it might show whatever is listed under "name=". If you are in a foreign country, though, you might also want the "name:(en)=".
Personally, my comaps is set to display "name:(en)=" and if that doesnt exist, fall back to whatever the local language is (what's in "name="). Honestly, I wish they could make it more configurable, so I could have it display both.
The convention in openstreetmaps is that "name=" is for what people who live there use/what's on physical signage. Since everyone still calls it "lake ontario" that name sticks. In places with legitimately different names from the people who live there, like Switzerland, they just do / names for each language.
Apple maps probably just provides the "official" name for everything. There's pros and cons to everything, and openstreetmap isnt exactly consistent with their stated methodology. Like openstreetmap uses the official name for "unnamed mountain" and not the nazi collaborator name that people actually use (not that I'm complaining), which they should technically be using according to their methodology.
All very interesting. More configurability seems the way to go for OSM / CoMaps. AND what is the nazi collaborator name of "unnamed mountain"? I will gladly call it anything other than the nazi name, fyi.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_P%C3%A9tain
To be fair, they named it before he became a collaborator.
Apple just pulled the name off the map, Google still had the old name.
Unnamed Mountain it is. Thanks for the history lesson! I'm sure the mountain itself is not to blame. And have to wonder if there is an indigenous name which would be unsullied, and historically prior to the name given by colonizers.