Fediverse vs Disinformation

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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 propaganda and/or disinformation

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These morons don't even know the difference between "less" and "fewer".

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As an investigative journalist in Venezuela, Tamoa Calzadilla saw firsthand what happens when news and information become battlegrounds for autocracy. Today, as editor-in-chief at Factchequeado, a Spanish-language fact-checking and information hub, she helps make sure that Latino communities in the United States have access to accurate, trustworthy information.

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Extract from article:

As world leaders come together for the 79th meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, the Kremlin unleashes a torrent of blatant lies and fabrications to confuse and deceive. [...]

Liar in a fancy suit

In a recent interview, Lavrov unleashed a torrent of disinformation, portraying Russia as a ‘noble defender’ against Western hegemony. Lavrov did not shy away from painting a distorted picture of the West in an attempt to strike an anti-colonialist nerve while dismissing Russia’s own murderous colonial past.

Simultaneously, he claimed that Russia is creating ‘potential that will help countries become independent of the unipolar world’. A weird thing to say while trying to destroy the independence and sovereignty of a neighbouring country. It is classic Kremlin duplicity to ignore Russia’s own ongoing imperialistic conquest in Ukraine and colonial exploitation within its own borders, while shedding false tears over alleged Western unipolarity.

Lavrov’s blatant misrepresentation of Russia’s war against Ukraine is particularly repulsive. He falsely claimed that the West is ‘waging a war in Ukraine with the EU’s own hands against Europe’s interests’, seemingly oblivious to Russia’s unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine that started the war. In an attempt to justify this aggression, Lavrov invoked a distorted interpretation of the UN Charter.

Lavrov also attempted to position Russia as a defender of traditional values against what he termed the West’s ‘non-traditional values’, implying a moral superiority that stands in stark contrast to Russia’s actions on the world stage. Throughout the interview, Lavrov consistently aimed to portray Russia as a ‘victim of Western aggression’, while simultaneously justifying Russia’s own aggressive actions and deflecting any criticism.

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The US presidential elections will take place on 5 November. And despite their protestations of indifference, warmongers in the Kremlin seem keenly interested in the results.

This became quite clear, when on 4 September the US exposed a Kremlin-backed foreign influence campaign, which relied on influencers, AI-generated content, paid advertisements and other disingenuous means to drive traffic toward typosquatted and other manipulative pro-Kremlin domains. The US Justice Department announced the ongoing seizure of at least 32 domains used for this malign influence operation. Meanwhile, the US Department of Treasury is now taking action against Russian individuals enabling such clandestine influence operations, including the notorious pro-Kremlin propagandists and the editor-in-chief of RT, Margarita Simonyan

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