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.
Same as instance rules, plus:
On a parallel note here is a Google ad I got on my lemmy client:
When you click on the question mark of course the info you get is, it is from an Israeli state agency and is unverified:
Of course I reported the ad as it is not an ad but war propaganda. Don't think it will do any good but oh well.
Religious sleeper cell murders Minnesota state sentaor and representative.
The real sleeper cells are the hate preachers all across the country, telling their followers how to vote, and telling them who to kill. This hate religion is the #1 cause of domestic terrorism, and has been every single year for 25 years.
They were claiming this same shit before the election. They claimed that if Biden/Harris won, they sleeper cells would activate and start attacking. One dumbass hick in the backwoods claimed they would shoot out the "transformers" on the power poles first. So that's why he spent $10k on some solar panels...
Jihadi, as in religious extremists willing to pick up arms to force their religious beliefs onto others? Like evengelicals and MAGA? Proud boys, Bogalo, religious cults, right wing extremists groups, etc? Yeah, they are a big problem but open borders are not the cause, neither are the dems.