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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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A disgusting comparison.

As evidence of Thunberg’s antisemitism, the Israeli government pointed to her use of “terms such as ‘genocide,’ ‘siege’ and ‘mass starvation’ in reference to Israel’s actions in Gaza.”

Many of these views are well within the American mainstream. A Quinnipac poll from August found that half of American voters believe that Israel is committing a genocide. Thirty-nine percent of Jewish Americans believe Israel is committing a genocide, according to an October Washington Post poll. Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs, which produced the report, deemed Thunberg a more dangerous threat than Fuentes, who has said Judaism is incompatible with Western civilization and called for a “total Aryan victory.”

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[–] Kimjongtooill@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you conflate anti-zionism with antisemitism long enough, you'll dilute the word to the point where everyone will self identify as "antisemitic".

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

He doesn't care because that's what he wants to happen.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

That is what Bibi wants to happen so he can retain power? The only way Bibi and others like him can win is if antisemitism is a genuine global threat, they desperately need the bigotry to make their ideologies not appear as freakish distractions from actually helping the society they govern.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 25 points 1 month ago

If there's any antisemitism in this matter, it's coming from a government that uses the Jewish victims of the Holocaust as meat shields against criticism of the ongoing Nakba.

[–] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago
  1. Good I hope she is
  2. Fuck Israel
[–] Rothe@piefed.social 14 points 1 month ago

Of course they would say that. Fuentes is a fascist like the Israeli government, so they have a lot in common.

[–] BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 12 points 1 month ago

AGREED! There's NOTHING Anti Semetic about saying Hitler was Right like Fuentes did but how DARE Thunberg want to NOT Bomb Babies!

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 10 points 1 month ago

There are a lot of prominent influencers on the radical left who are trying to destroy the Jewish cultural tradition of killing children. When will the left learn to respect other cultures?

[–] earlstilt@feddit.uk 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Number of jewish people killed by Thunberg = 0 Number of jewish people killed by Israel = ?

[–] Babalugats@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Number of Semitic people killed by Thunberg = 0

Number of Semitic people killed by Israel (only counting Palestinians) = over 78,000

[–] GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You added a 0. AFAIK, official estimates are 78,000.

[–] Babalugats@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

Didn't see that, but I had the comma in the right place. TBH, it doesn't matter if it was 78 or 78billion. It's the how and why.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 5 points 1 month ago

I hope so. I want to live in a world where Thunberg is more influential than the literal neo-Nazi Fuentes.