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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.


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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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[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip -2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

First World: “the west”

Second World: countries contested by the first and third that routinely had/have their sovereignty violated. Integral to “domino theory.”

Third World: socialist/communist nations

Edit: lmao don’t whiskey and lemmy yall. Flipped second and third

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Second World was the Soviets. 3rd world was India and other non-aligned.

[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 days ago

lol yes thank you. Dumb flip there

[–] shawn1122@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago

I wonder who came up with this nomenclature. Certainly wouldn't be the ones who chose to call themselves 'first world' right?

Glad to see its no longer taken seriously in any sort of academic or intellectual context.