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 they are heavy on State propaganda and always have been. Starmer is so terrified of being called antisemitic after the bullshit way Corbyn was hounded out of office on similar bogus claims, that he is never going to stand up to Israel.
It’s so bad. They reported more times on their opinion the “welfare reforms” were necessary, than the fact the government’s own report found it would put 150’000 people into poverty.
Over the years I’ve realised that whenever I’m well informed about a topic it strikes me how biased the BBC is at reporting about it. While for some reason when I don’t know the topic I somehow imagine they’re decent. I think my brain has finally got the message that they are no better than the economist.
They were more independent until several years back when the Tory Brexit party brought them to heel by installing loyalists at the top, due to their bad habit of reporting the facts about how things were going. Of course even before that they were masters of the false-equivalence-dialectic style where they’ll force an expert in something to debate against a man who lives in a shed who thinks women are genetically identical to crabs - all in the interest of showing both sides of the debate.