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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Yeah, I'm late to the party, but I'm probably just gonna block and move on. You seem like a walking ball of contradiction, and trying to figure out your actual views is probably what is pissing some folks off.
I don't think you should be banned, but I don't need to interact with someone helping to spread pro-trump messaging.
Removed image because it's not actually the one I'm fishing for in my ridiculously unorganized folder of quips.
Yeah, I ended up going with a block anyhow. They may be legit carrying separate, distinct views in their head, but it was already feeling a little self contradictory by the time we were a couple layers deeper.
It would be the "I'm a socialist but nearly all my posts are pro-Trump" bit I think. The ball of contradictions.
But also, supporting someone who is setting up new ~~internment~~ , uh ~~deportation~~, no, concentration camps, among other actions that are kicking the legs out from under our nation and causing the deaths of innocents would be a decent reason to be pissed off about someone's political views.
I'll probably wait until I can find the right quip to post. The point of it is along the lines of "all views deserve equal consideration only if you don't actually look at the content of some of those views." Because you seem to think you're just playing fair, when what you are actually doing is supporting the up and coming dictatorial fascist regime.
And in reply to one of your other questions - all conservatives and republicans may not be fascist bigots, but it's also clearly not a problem for them that their elected representatives are. That's pretty much enough for me to know what I need to know about them.
Means it's full of people who are cool with us heading that way. Have some quips, though still not the one I was looking for.
Do you roll out the red carpet for them and explicitly say you are helping them?
Nope, not cool.
Like I said, walking contradictions. It's tiring.