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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Imperial echo chamber.
What made you a user of dbzer0 and moderator in this community? Dbzer0 is a self-described anarchist instance with rules like "no tankie shit" and I'd expect support for exposing an imperialist government (or any government) from an anarchist.
In your own community's side bar, the latest article at the first link is on Russia's disinformation. You also link to Media Bias Fact Check, which marks all of the sources linked from KremlinOps at the time of your comment as either "least biased" or somewhat left-biased and ranging from "mostly factual" to "highly factual".
Technocrit is an OG dbzer0 user. Please don't be throwing shade at them.
My concern, and I assume one that is shared by others here, is that MoG and similar communities are mostly just full of jingoistic communist-haters regurgitating western propaganda about Russia and China in an attempt to deflect from the crimes of the imperial core. So by focusing just on Russian propaganda will that in effect simply create a community for western propaganda, which is imo just as [or in fact moreso] rampant as Russian propaganda?
Hopefully you can keep a handle on that, and good luck with your community.
But, an sub focused on modern day Russia has nothing to do with tankies and communism, why assume otherwise?
If it's focus is on contemporary politics and propaganda then sure, that's a fair take lol.
Tbh I find that people who immediately get offended about the sub before it had a chance to prove there's a reason to, are just telling on themselves