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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The original series of speeches and sermons by the former Nazi pastor Martin Niemöller's mentiones the Incurables, Communists, socialists, schools, unionists, democratic socialists, Jews, the press, and the Church. but explicitly avoids mentioning the Nazi party started with felons and foreigners.
The original German poem omits the felons, foreigners, incurables, schools, press and church.
The American English version further omits the Communists and originally tried to replace "unions" with "industrialists".
If you are going to project the "first they came for" concept onto the USA you can either start with the spirit of the poem:
Which sets the start date of the poem to at least ~1850.
Or you can start with the letter of the poem:
Which sets the start date to at least ~1950.
The intention was one of contextualizing current events. I'm not sure I understand what you mean by gatekeeping?