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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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[–] ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

everyone knows this including everyone that tried to pretend like they were doing the exact same thing musk was….
it what i’d call “nerd sniping” form of trolling….
they make endless stupid claims with “sources” and just keep you arguing, spinning your wheels, and wasting your energy trying to “convince” someone that the world’s most obvious nazi salute, post wwii, was a nazi salute.
i guess it’s like sea-lioning….

but here’s my source on that: [insert 45 minute podcast].

dude it’s all in there! what you don’t have enough attention span to watch that? you must not really care that much… 🤣

i also noticed they all switched from 🤡 to 🤣 between trump’s terms…

which makes it feel centrally controlled, you can pretty much filter for those emojis and find 95% chuds / r-bots

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Totally. I also remember noticing the emoji shift. I assumed it was cultural, but your central control theory has merit. We’ll be waiting decades for full transparency of this term.