this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2024
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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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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Wouldn't it be easier to just report when he isn't lying?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

You've got a point, lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I said this exact thing to my partner on a flight from Teipei to Seattle.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Rewarding healthy behavior with incentives (attention he wants) could have been effective over the past 78 years. Too bad no one has tried it.