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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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[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 51 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The fact that this piece of stool brought up this paper should automatically disqualify him. But it likely will not, and we will have him in charge of things to usher in Nurgle and our next batch of pandemics.

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

62 cases of bird flu in humans have been reported in the US as of yesterday, one fatality. Nurgle might have already arrived.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

That sounds like a cute little muppet character.