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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:
- No disinformation
- Posts must be relevant to the topic of astroturfing, propaganda and/or disinformation
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- EU vs Disinfo
- FactCheck.org
- PolitiFact
- Snopes
- Media Bias / Fact Check
- PEN America
- Media Matters
- FAIR
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...why? Do they think this will help them somehow? What could it possibly do, convert the last remaining non-right wingers left on Twitter?
It's to make already right wing people more emboldened. If they think everyone agrees with them, they'll be more outward about their hate
Look up False Consensus Bias. Humans naturally assume they're in the majority, this just adds a layer of confirmation bias to that mix, lol.
The masses are very sheepish. Read enough of your fellow party ilk has gone a different way, then you start to question it.
Also, easy AI campaign to spin up GOP base. Then they can report "Dems changing their mind about Charlie Kirk" here is our Twitter/X proof
Lying works too often.