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.
Same as instance rules, plus:
If public services are underfunded, why are Trump and the Reds cutting those services?
Scruffy astroturfers!
If you want less immigration then stop foreign policies that help fuck up other countries. Not saying that is the only cause but in the long run probably more effective than rounding up random people from the street.
reminds me of https://youtu.be/_fHfgU8oMSo
Glad someone else thought of this. No different. Just manufactured messaging by those invested in destroying the nation for neofuedalism
"Hey can I copy your homework?" "Sure just change it a little so the teacher won't know"
The homework:
It's the slow boiled frog. People on the outside notice but the fox viewers don't.
Always was.
Who cares? Everything is naked these days.