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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.


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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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Right-wing media’s racist attacks and ethnic slurs directed at Indians, other South Asians, and South Asian Americans have surged over the past year, in part fueled by conservative infighting over the H-1B visa program and a handful of viral posts...

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[–] overcast5348@lemmy.world -1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Okay. What would you like to be educated about? I can type out a thousand page essay. Will that be enough to change your opinion about literally anything?

More importantly, there is existing literature on why racists suck balls. Why haven't you sought that out and changed your opinion already if you're truly willing to be educated and change your opinions?

[–] jesusactuallyhateshorses@sh.itjust.works -1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

For the record, I think your assumption is nonsense. Facts are not racist. I made no statement in my OP that was racist.

See above, champ.

As I've already said, you couldn't be more wrong.

[–] overcast5348@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Stating a bunch of random "facts" about a group of people and using that as a justification to hate on them? Yeah, that's not racism. We should give this phenomena a name. Sounds brand new.

[–] jesusactuallyhateshorses@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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My dude. You already said you know nothing about India. Perhaps go read about it and learn something rather than arguing about things you know nothing about. I'm sure you know of some still reputable information sources.

Edit: They are an Indian immigrant to Canada. What a twat.

[–] overcast5348@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I don't know about India. I know about racism. Once again, you're a racist piece of shit. Wait for a few days, your rusky bot friends will come online and you can tell them all about me.

[–] boonhet@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago

Then perhaps you should read about India. It's a country where you can gang rape a woman on public transit and get away with it unless it receives international media attention because the woman dies of her injuries. Which is not to say we don't have a rape problem in the west, but most cultures don't accept it in public.

They did at least hang some of the men responsible for that one famous case, but changed basically nothing legally. A woman is raped every 20 seconds in India.

[–] jesusactuallyhateshorses@sh.itjust.works -1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Says the Indian immigrant. Funny how lies make you look like a liar.

You don't seem to know about much. Be well.