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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Yes, weird idea. I might agree that tariffs per se might be good if done wisely, but defaults are just never good. I fail to see any potential "long-term gains" here. I will just frighten the foreign(and local too) capital.
It's explained in the Miran paper. The USA's economy is a net importer. It uses exorbitant privilege to import everything and profit financially.
They can use a trade war to create negotiating leverage for a new trade deal because the surplus countries will be more eager to negotiate than the deficit country.
The goal is to have domestic industry and exorbitant privilege, whereas under the old order they traded one for the other by becoming an importer.
Yeah, Trump’s skill at negotiating things like the Gaza cease-fire and the new Iran nuclear deal is legendary. Hence, it’s ambitious but “might work.”
In someone else’s hands, I would be skeptical and wouldn’t describe the result as a successful anything because of the amount of overall long-term suffering it would cause, but at the same time I am not an expert so who knows. In Trump’s hands, this all is guaranteed to be as much of a disaster as everything else he does is. Absolutely guaranteed.
The problem with any community against "disinformation" is that it instantly turns into people exercising their pet peeves.