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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Every source of fact checking has its own problems and biases. I post from sites that I find credible, or at least contain some useful data points. It's up to you whether you find a particular source credible or not, I can't make that assessment on your behalf.
So its hardly surprising to see Sachs providing "critical support" to Russia as well.
Being an anarchist, my main concern is authoritarianism. Russia is an an authoritarian state with [neo]imperial ambitions that does not deserve my support. Anarchists generally don't subscribe to MLs' fixation on providing [un]critical support to authoritarian and only notionally socialist AES states, simply because they are working against US interests. Russia fully deserves to called out for its constant stream of propaganda about the Ukraine war and this particular source does a good job of that. To be clear, I'm not a supporter of the US either, as should be clear from my post history. But I do support Ukraine in it's fight against a foreign aggressor, as I would support Taiwan against a Chinese invasion, or Canada against a US invasion. These are all morally uncomplicated things as far as I'm concerned.
It's the folks trying to legitimize the invasion of a neighboring country that are the real concern to me.
You're the one calling it "disinfo", and I disagree with your opinion. IMO, it's a useful resource for understanding both Russian and EU/US propaganda. Is it perfect? Nope. But nothing is. If you could point to disinfo in the articles, then presumably you would have done so rather than trying to discredit the source.
Anyway I'm not interested in getting into an argument about it. The main websites I post from are clearly listed in the sidebar, and although none of them are perfect, they are all related to the topic. If you want to suggest additional sources, then please do so.
First one that came up. You aren't paying me by the hour. Sachs has already discredited himself by going on state-sponsored Russian TV multiple times to call for Ukraine to negotiate and step away from its "maximalist demands" of removing Russia from Ukrainian territory. What more needs to be said?