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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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[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

Got it. You just want to keep making the same point over and over again. I’ve tried to address it a few different times, and you’re not into it. Okey dokey.

Glass houses mate; all you've done is continuously restate your argument that the fact she holds views you don't agree with is evidence she's actually an agent of the great Russian conspire to infiltrate and subvert our righteous Western society.

I went back and edited the quotes to hyphens, and replaced the AOC and Bernie thing with the exact words she said.

Yeah, and now it doesn't actually back up your point.

Hopefully you are content now? Maybe not.

Are you going to finally stop making up quotes?

Heh. An example, from

So she didn't say that; once again your argument relies on outright making up disinformation about her.

Russia has every right to start slaughtering members of some random sovereign nation nearby to it as long as it makes sure to tell people in advance

So no, you're not going to stop making up things she never said. So no, I'm not content; stop spreading disinformation.

Ukraine doesn’t “have to” destroy refineries or military aircraft inside Russia, simply because their apartment buildings and fruit markets with their corresponding people inside keep blowing up. That’s “escalation.” But Russia might “have to” start World War 3 if people don’t take seriously their God given right to keep blowing up fruit markets. You know, the anti-war perspective.

At no point was this discussion ever about whether her opinions are correct or not, and yet here you are, arguing at length about them. Which makes sense, because to you, there's no difference between being wrong and being a Russian agent, you fundamentally don't believe people can honestly disagree with you, even if they're wrong. You are a McCarthyist, plain and simple.