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.
Same as instance rules, plus:
This is why Reagan was so hot to get rid of the Fairness Doctrine back in the day.
After Watergate the different sides learned two different lessons.
The Left learned that we needed an open media because without it democracy was in peril.
The Right learned that they needed to destroy the idea of an open and honest media.
the fairness doctrine only applied to broadcast TV and radio. the logic was since there were limited airwaves, news was required to present both sides. never had anything to do with cable networks, print media, the internet, or anything else.
in fact the fairness doctrine could lead to false balance being presented, depending on how courts rule "fair". for example, do we want to give equal time and attention to both sides on mostly settled issues like climate change?
So?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Communications_Commission
Cable is regulated by the FCC. We could have prevented Fox News from becoming a thing, but we didn't.
so, the point is you were barking up the wrong tree. if you want regulation just say that, but the fairness doctrine ain't it.
also I don't see how it's relevant to this post anyway, it's just some jackass on twitter who photoshopped an image.
would have been pretty cool though
Not for all the fish
I mean, they dye the river green every year for St. Patrick's Day. I imagine there are equally safe red dyes.
TIL
WTF?
Just more end of empire shit.
"Democrats dump 10,000 decaliters of ketchup into Chicago River to celebrate abortion during DNC"
Well it would be sacrilege to put it on their hot dogs, so what else are they supposed to do with all that ketchup?
Chicagoians dump 10,000 decaliters of ketchup into Chicago River to prevent it from being put on hotdogs.