this post was submitted on 09 Dec 2025
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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.


Community rules

Same as instance rules, plus:

  1. No disinformation
  2. Posts must be relevant to the topic of astroturfing, propaganda and/or disinformation

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[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Love that I got an ad that said “Apple device is infected with malware please click OK to disinfect”

Yeah quality ad network on this site.

(Inb4 yeah I know I should have ad blocking turned on; not possible at the moment unfortunately)

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 3 points 2 weeks ago

quick reminder that ad blockers have always been basic cyber security but especially now that we have Zero-Click Spyware