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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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Russian election interference efforts targeting Harris campaign, Microsoft finds (www.politico.com)
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[–] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

two “Kremlin-aligned” groups have in recent weeks spread videos including those showing Harris supporters attacking supporters of former President Donald Trump, and another video that used an actor to pose as Harris in a fictitious hit-and-run incident

One of those things is not like the other. Fake videos with an actress posing as Harris? To fake a video of the Vice President of the United States committing a crime?

WT actual F? Has media literacy dropped so low that garbage like that video is effective? In all the aggressive vetting in all her years as Senator, presidential candidate, and as VPOTUS, no one managed to find the “hit-and-run” tape that some rando (read: Russian intelligence agent) dug up on the internet?

I know critical thinking is at an all-time low, but that’s still absolutely ridiculous.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

Maybe Russia thinks she's unwilling to sell them her country's national secrets...