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:
Put your hand up if you remember the little bump of astroturf saying that TikTok was a great thing because it was teaching the youth of America about Gaza, promoting free expression and exchange of ideas, and that was why the US government was trying to kill it.
There will never be privately-owned social media that's a great thing for anybody other than a little handful of the worst people in the world.
Childless millennial, so I’m not sure what teenagers are like today, but wouldn’t talking openly about wanting teenagers to use an officially-sanctioned space be the easiest way to ensure they don’t?
It's only one piece of (damning) evidence vs a perpetual bombardment of bullcrap. At any age we all suffer different degrees of learned helplessness (which we call finding a compromise). From what I remember teenagers do feel more peer pressure and network effect, but that's about it.
He seems to be having his way through all things in the usa ?
Wait, genocide guy and swasticar dude aren't buddies?