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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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[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml -1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Caitlin is so angry about him calling Gaza a genocide.

That's not what she's angry about, and you know it. So I'm going to write you off as being deliberately dishonest.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

He called it a genocide, and she reacted by writing up a big dishonest article about why he is a massive piece of shit. I know she had various dishonest attacks on him and nitpicks about his statement, yes.

Here's what he said (and what he was trying to do to stop the US's complicity in it) before she decided he was a piece of shit for the "genocide" statement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miIT3Iz0qzA

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml -1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

So, like I said; you knew that "Caitlin is so angry about him calling Gaza a genocide" is false, and you said it anyway. IE, you are deliberately lying. Literally spreading disinformation.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'll have to find a way to carry on, somehow, knowing that you don't respect my commitment to truth and honesty. I will attempt to recover my self-esteem, to whatever extent I can.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 days ago

You literally just demonstrated that you don't have any commitment to truth and honesty, and will happily spread disinformation.