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.
Same as instance rules, plus:
Fox’s trumpaganda continues unabated? Huh. That sun thing. Still rising in the east, is it? Bit of a mystery, that.
I wonder how they're going to spin produce prices this fall. Can't blame ICE raids, can't blame immigrants, can't blame climate change ...
can't blame immigrants
Lol?
You are underestimating their gymnastic ability to shove their head even deeper up their own ass. "Immigrants are eating our foods!" "Antifa is stealing foods straight off the farms!"
And the worst thing is that every single right winger will believe it 😩
Explqin why they can't?
I mean, only one of those wouod remotely make sense, but has tgat ever stopped it from working before
once again, that is the point. "only the bad ones" was never the goal. stop falling for cave entrance painted onto the sides of rocks
My immigrant wife was under the impression that they were only deporting "bad guys". I didn't want to scare the shit out of her, but I pointed out that over 70% have no criminal record, and some have been straight up citizens. White people too! The horror.