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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.


Community rules

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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[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip -2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

How about all the "Democrats are equally as bad as Republicans" bots and the "Genocide Joe" bots?

I bet you saw a lot of those.

You know, the ones who made sure the Democrats didn't get enough votes to win against someone as dumb as Trump?

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 4 points 2 weeks ago

Show me one, an actual bot. Nearly any instance admin would be happy to ban them.

Though if you meant "malicious foreigners are the reason people were saying genocide is bad and the dems need to stop it or they will lose", we can have that discussion instead.