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:
Say it with me now “collaborators”. They should all be held to account.
If you’re not rich, you should stop preventing working with the “other side,” because division is what the rich want between everyone else. They will push social issues only as far as they can buy your loyalty and no further. They’re happy to use birth rights, guns, immigration and whatever else like a tennis ball, so long as the public is focused on the ball and not them. We need to realize greed of money and power isn’t a registered party, it’s a social cancer upon all who value fellow humans.