Fediverse vs Disinformation
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.
Community rules
Same as instance rules, plus:
- No disinformation
- Posts must be relevant to the topic of astroturfing, propaganda and/or disinformation
Related websites
- EU vs Disinfo
- FactCheck.org
- PolitiFact
- Snopes
- Media Bias / Fact Check
- PEN America
- Media Matters
- FAIR
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She posts, on Twitter.
I upvoted because I definitely see the irony of it, but I'm gonna play devils advocate for a second. The town crier has to be in town to spread the word. It's crappy, but it seems to be a commonality for some people that probably regret that reality.
Twitter isn't the town. It's the nazi bar.
I mean, the country reelected the traitor Nazi, I got bad news about the twn and Nazi Bar.
Yea, I agree it is the nazi bar. But for some goofy ass reason, businesses and people like this lady feel that they just have to be there to accomplish whatever it is they think they're going to get out of it. That's the gist of what I was saying.
My housemate is still on Twitter because of horse racing. She wants to get the last three race tracks in California shut down for good. Unfortunately all the people who are pro-racing are on Twitter, so if she shoves statistics and death rates on Mastodon or Bluesky they won't see them. They like the Nazi bar and aren't going anywhere else.
I don't think she still has her checkmark though.
She don't gotta pay for it.
actually, the way twitter likely works is that you have to pay for your posts to not be suppressed. the game, of course, rigged.
Dig the handle, pard.
Let'em rot until they realize they are rotting.
I've said something similar on a similar part before but was quickly corrected that what looked like xitter there was actually Mastodon. I don't have either or never had so I don't know but might this be Mastodon?
This is Twitter. You can sample a clean part of the background to get a very commonly recognized SRGB hex code. OR it's faked to look like Twitter.
Also, this account gives muskrat $8 a month
Edit: spelling