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
Matrix chat links
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After Trump won, all the "inflation is a super big deal, a lot of people are blaming Biden" and "Gaza is super important, everyone's protesting and blaming ~~Biden~~ Harris" stuff completely exited from the American media. No one in America cares about inflation or Gaza anymore, I guess. Everything was kind of quiet for a while, and now I've noticed a little trickle of "here's why all the cool kids are not protesting" starting to come into vogue. This one isn't the first.
If you pay attention, you can pick out which stories don't really make sense or have a reason to get created in the way that they are from someone who was just trying to report on reality, and the ones that stick out always serve one and only one side of the narrative.