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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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A familiar breed of British pundit has resurfaced - loud, self-declared feminists whose outrage is as selective as it is performative, and whose moral compass somehow always aligns with western state power.

They remain silent as Gaza burns, but are quick to find their voice to cheer on Israel and its allies as they threaten to flatten Iran - civilian casualties be damned.

During Israel's recent strikes on Iran, the radical feminist journalist and co‑founder of Justice for Women, Julie Bindel, branded leftist anti-war feminists "Team Iran" sympathisers. It was a disingenuous, grotesquely misleading and dangerously ideological accusation, but not a surprising one.

What we're witnessing goes beyond reasoned critique - it is the cynical weaponisation of feminism to uphold state violence.

This is no isolated incident. It's a pattern.

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[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Julie Bindel gets mentioned... Yeah, Julie Bindel is a big time TERF too and the Venn diagram of those "feminists" and TERFs happens to be a circle. The F in TERF stands for fascism.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If your kick is performative contrarianism/“owning the libs”/gleefully being an asshole these days, wrapping yourself in a big ol’ Israeli flag is going to look mighty tempting.

[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

While I certainly agree with you, I think that the upper crust of TERFdom is much less interested in performative contrarianism than they are in inflicting actual harm. Their ideology is entirely centred on attacking anyone they perceive as a threat to their status. Like most fascists, they justify their merciless cruelty as self-defence and that aligns nicely with Netanyahu's justifications for his genocidal attacks on Palestinians.

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago

People who attack vulnerable populations easily switch targets for their hatred

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

first-time Suffragettes were extremely racist and supported World War I.

[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah, it's the least surprising thing ever. I'm sure I've probably mentioned it before, but the founder of the suffragette movement was an anti-communist who expelled all socialists after WW1. Many former suffragettes ended up becoming fascists and even held positions in the British Union of Fascists. The effect this had on post-suffragette feminism in the UK can still be felt today. It's no surprise that many TERFs still use the suffragette flag.

[–] huf@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

first woman in UK parliament was a nazi, and they still bring her up as a feminist icon from time to time

this is just the free west being itself

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

#OhNoWhyIsContraPointsTrendingAgain

[–] ogmios@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago

Far too many people fail to recognize that they're being socially blackmailed into positions on issues that they have absolutely nothing to do with.