this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2026
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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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[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

"Brave whistleblower" should have picked less neoliberal / right wing papers to leak to if that's the case. Like, for anyone else thinking of doing something like this, leak to smaller outlets that are willing to violate journalistic norms (and risk pissing off the government) and also to the big guys. Then when the smaller outlets report on it, the bigger papers are forced to move or miss the story.

[–] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

Move or miss the story? The small outlets are covering all the shit in the epstein files while msm ignores it entirely. This isn't the 50s where "missing the scoop" matters, they pick and choose what they want to report and when.

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 week ago

Send to BBC, Al Jazera, RT and the major US outlets.

Make sure they all know the others got the info also.