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this post was submitted on 12 Sep 2025
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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.
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- EU vs Disinfo
- FactCheck.org
- PolitiFact
- Snopes
- Media Bias / Fact Check
- PEN America
- Media Matters
- FAIR
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There are no major news outlets that actually are actually liberal. There was A point maybe 20+ years where several outlets had a slight liberal bias, but America was a more accepting place in general, so it could have been a reflection of that.
But since then journalism has been decimated, and media outlets have been consolidating, and they are all owned by a handful of billionaires. Adelson, bezos, Murdoch, Zuckerberg, Musk. 90% or more of what you see, hear and are told is truth, comes curated through their outlets.
Every single one of them is a conservative, who's given millions to billions to get trump elected.
The idea that the current US media landscape is in ANY way liberal, is so fucking laughable, it's probably the best litmus test to see how programmed someone has become. By calling it the liberal media, someone has to be living in a land of pure fantasy
Pretty sure it was BS 20 years ago too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Liberal_Media%3F
"The liberal media" is just the result of effective propaganda.