this post was submitted on 23 Mar 2025
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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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hilariouschaos’s most active and presumed lead site admin Alice makes many posts and also mods numerous communities, including https://hilariouschaos.com/c/diedsuddenly . This community sidebar’s first assumption for a person dying is that it is due to vaccines, rather than literally anything else.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hilarious Chaos is the rebirth of Exploding Heads, after they quit Lemmy for I think Nostr but then hardly anyone followed so they tried to come back.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

Odd how those "deeply held beliefs" are a lot less meaningful to them when there's nobody around to make upset.