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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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After a shooting at Brown University left two dead, right-wing media figures launched a baseless and Islamophobic campaign to falsely tie a Palestinian student to the killings.

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[–] starik@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago

Now he’ll never have to work unless he wants to

[–] Sunshine@piefed.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

The right is always making up nonsense as they go and yet people decide to believe it…