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
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it's on the OPINION section. it's okay to not agree with it, they want to have opinions expressed, usually not the norm, so you can have a better formed option about the subject
if you read it and think "that's stupid bullshit!"
you might come to the conclusion the editor wants.
I don't necessarily disagree that that may be the intention, but "We're going to platform apologia for a fascist's policies so you can see how stupid it is" is, I feel, at the very least a severe strategic miscalculation.
You can't a better formed opinion on a subject by reading trash.
GIGO
Yes but someone whose opinion is that ants are tiny robots doesn’t belong in the opinion section. I think this is on about that level.
What's wrong with that tho
Maybe there would be a big improvement to be had to the quality of the paper and the engagement, if it came with the right framing.
In a box on page 1: “One story in this paper is fake! Can you spot it? Write to (blah) with your guess and your reasons” and then see what people come up with and publish some of the letters with responses. Get people in a more healthy frame of mind for how to interact with the material.
(Bonus points if there is no fake story in most issues)
No I mean what's wrong with ants as robots
I'm 100% embracing this
lol okay fair point let me rephrase
That is more bizarre than what’s in this article but they are based in roughly the same level of factual rigor and connection to reality.
If I beg the ants to liberate us, will the Koreans hear me?