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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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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/35786937

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[–] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I think the point is that it might be more socially acceptable to say "Hamas has a base under that hospital therefore those kids had it coming" as "Charlie Kirk's own hateful thoughts and words leads to hateful actions, so maybe he had it coming". Why has nobody been fired for making remarks of the former kind on air?

Also, I think @Rom@hexbear.net said this to you 5 hours ago and you didn't respond.

[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They should have been fired for both. I never said otherwise.

[–] Wakmrow@hexbear.net 4 points 7 months ago