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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Imagine, that you were the intelligence service of a small country dependent on the support and compliance of larger countries to enable you to enact a genocide you had been planning for decades. What would be the best way to achieve that? Extensive Kompromat on influential individuals in positions of influence in media, politics and business might be one way to do that.
This isn’t a new thing ether, the lavender scare was in large part J “Edna” Hoover forcing queer individuals into a strict network of mutual blackmail. One of my grandparents told me several stories regarding the subject, don’t ask what they were doing in Budapest in 1956.
Budapest during the cold war? It's like 50% odds they were a spy. I'm exaggerating... But not much.