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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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cross-posted from: https://piefed.ca/c/privacy/p/796754/the-uk-s-teen-social-media-ban-is-political-theater-not-child-safety-policy

Indeed, the evidence has long suggested that these kinds of bans actually can make things worse by isolating kids who are at most at risk and who need support. At a time when fear mongering and moral panics have cut off basically everywhere that kids can be kids with each other and without adults hovering over them at every moment, social media became that kind of digital third space. Social media didn't become the default digital third space because it's uniquely 'addictive' — it became the default because adults have spent decades overreacting and shutting down every other place kids could gather and communicate without supervision.

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[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 5 points 3 weeks ago

The articles regarding those "underage social media bans" do have the right idea about the damage they are doing, but they completely ignore the real reason why those "child-protective measures" are pushed. It's not age-verification, its identity-verification, and therefore even worse than even the most damning article they wrote.

[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Authority-Theatre.

call it what it is.

( so are the winners of the Big Brother Awards, btw )

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