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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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Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger accused the CIA and corporate actors of editing the online encyclopedia to serve state and institutional interests during an interview with the German daily Berliner Zeitung published on 7 August.

"I believe Wikipedia is already compromised," Sanger said.

He added that the platform was identified early as a propaganda instrument, and that its anonymity rule made it easy to use as such.

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"The powerful are very interested in Wikipedia," he said, describing the site's pseudonyms as a mask, saying that the platform treats the positions of institutions such as the World Economic Forum and the World Bank as established fact.

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[–] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Is this the nutter who made conservapedia? Cuz that place is a shitshow and the dude is bonkers

[–] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Citizendium. Conservapedia was founded by Andrew Schlafly.

[–] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oh, so a completely different cofounding nutter who spun up an alternative to wikipedia?

... Two nickels! Not a lot, but weird that it happened twice.