this post was submitted on 06 Jan 2026
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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.


Community rules

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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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Captured", "apprehended" - same shit they use for drug dealer stories.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago

Captured maybe. Apprehended has the assumption of legal right of capture for justice, and while he is being tried right now, is it the US's jurisdiction to do so? I don't think people would be so upset about how it was done if there are legal justifications.

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Extraordinary rendition

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago
[–] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 7 points 1 month ago

I’d totally agree if the reason was that it was clearly a war crime. Alas, it’s just their higher ups are cool with this whole farce.

[–] Akasazh@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The BBC is the Pinocchio of brown nosing. Every lie they tell and truth they twarth their nose gets deeper into the fart birth canal of trump

[–] suff@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago