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:
i'm rather curious what constitutes "alternative media and quality social media" for "doing your own research"
Are the people upvoting this actually reading it? It's completely incoherent, conspiracy nutjob tier rambling without any substance or actual facts.
Yes, I would like to read a serious version of this. Why didn’t they turn up to vote. A serious version would treat this case by case.
Correa had a heart attack and was in surgery
Bet he could get a doctor's note for an excused absence.
My understanding is that the vote was called specifically because there weren’t enough votes to succeed.
This isnt fact or journalism, the author is accusing all of them of raping children because they missed the vote.
This wasn't a vote to impeach. It was a vote to move forward. In any case, this would never have got a 2/3rds vote in the Senate. Bad look though!
I like frederica's hat.
Melanie Stansbury out here doing it for the love of the game