Fediverse vs Disinformation
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:
- No disinformation
- Posts must be relevant to the topic of astroturfing, propaganda and/or disinformation
Related websites
- EU vs Disinfo
- FactCheck.org
- PolitiFact
- Snopes
- Media Bias / Fact Check
- PEN America
- Media Matters
- FAIR
Matrix chat links
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Remember how the Trump campaign ran ads showing what was happening in America under Trump 1, saying this was what Americans could have to fear if BIDEN got elected?
Yep. It's like all of his supporters remembered the first term as some mass fucking hallucination. I had entire groups of my family bitching his entire term only to blame everything they were bitching about on Biden within the first year of his term, refusing to acknowledge the things his administration did fix, and then blaming implementations that Trump 1.0 did on Biden saying Trump 2.0 would fix them. I thought the 2017 tax law passage couldn't be more obvious that it would cause issues due to dump, but all the gpo had to do was apply a time delay to it and suddenly all the "against" votes and dissent democrats did cast fell away to "Damn Biden raising my damn taxes. Feels like I can't afford anything due to inflation!" And it's like bro... We had a global pandemic that was so so much worse than it needed to be on our home front because Dump specifically cut the departments responsible for mitigating it before it occurred... Like how fucking stupid are people on average? Are we all just living with memory of only the past few months or what?