this post was submitted on 06 Oct 2025
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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 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

You people really cannot accept the idea of people disagreeing with you. How are they being reasonable when they are repeatedly making up lies out of whole cloth? What exactly have I said that makes me "trolling", but them "completely reasonable"? Oh right, nothing, you just already agree with them and have convinced yourself that trolling is when anybody tells you you're wrong.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

You have simply become infamous.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Brain really just comes to rage bait, their comments and modlog say as much. Their active time seems to mostly be around office hours Moscow, but that could be a coincidence.

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

Nah, it's just one guy who's been following me around since I said Kamala Harris isn't better on Gaza six months ago