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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.

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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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A pretty fascinating look at how one "centrist" think tank tries to mislead Democratic politicians to defuse activists' impact on them (stringinamaze.net)
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A ton of different facets here. Among them:

  1. A little window into the consultant-driven "how can we best manipulate the voters' perceptions, what 'messaging' will be most effective" way that DC looks at trying to win elections
  2. A little window into the wildly malicious kinds of corruption that can infect that little ecosystem
  3. The whole strategy of "we're going to tell you what the 'enemies' believe, and then why it is wrong" even when absolutely none or almost none of the 'enemies' are actually saying that, is of course as common in mainstream politics as it is on Lemmy. And of course, it works quite well in both places.
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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

The more fundamental problem is the "latin" part.

https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/the-colonial-roots-and-legacy-of-the-latinxhispanic-labels-a-historical-analysis