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 best thing that can be said about media that’s “critical” of MAGA these days is that’s it’s functioning as entertainment for people who will ultimately do nothing. All this hand-wringing and wondering if Trump is evil or not does his bidding…puts people to sleep. We’re long past the point where civilized people should have revolted.
Nah, we’re fucked. The best we can hope for is a Democratic “landslide”…where a bunch of centre-right capitalists get rewarded for waiting around doing nothing. They’ll prove to be corrupt, feckless and ineffective…because they are…and whatever MAGA morphs into will be acting like Stalin was in charge and we’ll get MAGA 3.0. We’re very far off from a proper revolution…which is necessary to stop this constant slide into unrestricted capitalism.
Yeah. Social media and doom scrolling are the new opium of the masses.