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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] 1 points 2 months ago (5 children)

First, let me say that Trump is an idiot and I'm not defending him.

That out of the way... Imagine your circle landmass has a 'C' shaped mountain range around the edge. The center of the 'C' is a sea level valley that floods when sea levels rise. Then the amount of coast would increase.

Obviously if sea level keeps rising forever then eventually the total coastline will trend to zero. Really just pointing out that the circle may be a bit of an oversimplification and in some given time frame coastline could increase.

None of the this is intended to defend Trump or deny the negative affects of climate change.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Except our landmass is not a small amount of water surrounded by land. It's a small amount of land surrounded by water.

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