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.
Same as instance rules, plus:
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.
I have always just assumed that literally every post on that instance is is coming from Alice, whether as themselves or as a couple different alts. And all of them belong to exploding heads or whatever they were called back in the day. Kinda surprised everyone still federates with hc if I’m being honest. Just trash posts or blatant misinformation.