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.
Same as instance rules, plus:
Like the white South Africans right? Right?!
It's just so lazy.
If public services are underfunded, why are Trump and the Reds cutting those services?
That's why they failed to save practically any money after cutting those services
They cut some incredibly cheap incredibly effective programs
The big money goes to big companies and petrochemical companies
they got what they wanted before, so they are now advancing the discourse. same agenda, one step further.
Scruffy astroturfers!
reminds me of https://youtu.be/_fHfgU8oMSo
Glad someone else thought of this. No different. Just manufactured messaging by those invested in destroying the nation for neofuedalism
It's the slow boiled frog. People on the outside notice but the fox viewers don't.
Always was.
They are all part of the broader complex of "new media". You have these guys on the right. Tim Poole is centerish. I don't know much about the left side of the controlled media sphere but I'm sure they exist and are funded by the same people. If anyone listens to these guys they don't value their own time.