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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/24353606

I'd like to introduce a new Lemmy community intended to help keep Fediverse moderators and users informed about current/trending disinformation campaigns.

I'm currently seeking to compile a list of reliable sources related to political/social/corporate disinformation campaigns. If anyone has any recommendations, I'd love to hear about them in the comments. Once I have a curated list, I'll publish it in the community sidebar for reference.

To get things started, I've already reposted a few articles from https://euvsdisinfo.eu/, which was the main inspiration for this community.

My hope is that, alongside the excellent projects developed by @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com (such as fediseer, fedi-safety, and threativore), this community will play a small part in making the Fediverse a better place to visit.

From the community sidebar:

Propaganda and disinformation are a big problem on the internet, and the Fediverse is no exception. [...]

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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So I look in the modlog from time to time. There's been some actions I've seen that I don't agree with, but there is no way to see the context, so I've never spoke up. But today I saw something that concerned me. I'm just going to copy/paste the modlog so you see what I see.

Banned AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community >Technology@midwest.social reason: Lib expires: in 1 year mod

Banned AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community >Indiana@midwest.social reason: Lib expires: in 1 year mod Banned

AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community >Chat@midwest.social reason: Lib expires: in 1 year mod

Banned AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community Socialist Rifle >Association@midwest.social reason: Lib expires: in 1 year mod

Banned AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community >Antifascism@midwest.social reason: Lib expires: in 1 year mod

Banned AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community >Michigan@midwest.social reason: Lib expires: in 1 year mod

Banned AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community Lord of the >memes@midwest.social reason: Lib expires: in 1 year mod

Banned AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community Ohio@midwest.social reason: Lib expires: in 1 year mod

Banned AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community United States | >News & Politics@midwest.social reason: Lib expires: in 1 year mod

Banned AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community The >Onion@midwest.social reason: Lib expires: in 1 year mod

Banned AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community Religious >Cringe@midwest.social reason: Lib expires: in 1 year mod

Banned AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community >Iowa@midwest.social reason: Lib expires: in 1 year mod

Banned AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community >Memes@midwest.social reason: Lib expires: in 1 year mod

Banned AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community >Minnesota@midwest.social reason: Lib expires: in 1 year mod

Banned >AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community Food Crimes - >Offenses against >nutrition@midwest.social reason: Lib expires: in 1 year

I don't know who this guy is, or who the mod is, but essentially this guy is getting banned for being liberal.

Or am I misreading the situation???

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Over the past week or so there has been a serious spam problem hitting mastodon and rest of the fediverse especially misskey over on the japanese side of things and the story behind it is absolutely wild.