Fediverse vs Disinformation
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:
- No disinformation
- Posts must be relevant to the topic of astroturfing, propaganda and/or disinformation
Related websites
- EU vs Disinfo
- FactCheck.org
- PolitiFact
- Snopes
- Media Bias / Fact Check
- PEN America
- Media Matters
- FAIR
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The majority of the electorate will respond to the latter. Use the tools that work, not the ones you wish would work.
Just because you wish it was true, doesn't make it so.
Look at how the right attacks the left. They call them criminals, they call them lazy, they call them bad for the economy and corrupt. They DONT make up schoolyard insults like broke pee-pee. Because that would be pathetic as fuck and completely tarnish the message they're trying to stick to.
You people are so fucking clueless.
I don’t think any single group is behind this—it’s just like a rumor that spreads in a Highschool. Not everything is black and white.