this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2024
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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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[–] spacesatan@lemm.ee -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's the core of the substack you posted, that's the whole idea. Even the submission title you chose is just 'it doesn't matter if they're genuine or not because they're basically bots'

Recognize the doomers, and ignore them. Most of them are not human, most of the humans are not American, and none of them care. They are like a pothole in the road: there is no point reasoning with them.

People are already way too quick to call everything a bot/propaganda/a russian op, they do not need more encouragement to think less.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Does that mean you don’t want to bet?

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth -3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It probably means you could pull your head out of your wounded ego child self, and think

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 5 points 2 months ago

Thank you for engaging with my comment!