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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8-9 years ago I was nearly killed by one of these with an extra lift. I was in a sedan, stopped behind them. Someone texting rear ended me going ~45 mph. I hit my head on the steering wheel, and was pushed towards the truck from the momentum. Fortunately I didn't lose consciousness, and turned the wheel hard. I ended up grinding the full length of their driver side. It was a 2 lane road with oncoming traffic, luckily nobody was there at the time. If I stopped closer or didn't turn the wheel, my car would have gone right under and into the trucks bed and I might have been killed.
It scares me how many of these fucking useless trucks there are everywhere. Fuck them and fuck people on their phones.
Maybe we should move away from using cars for literally everything?
"Things shouldn't get better unless they're perfect!"
Why are you just repeating me verbatim?
That makes me so angry, you were almost killed so some idiot could have their cool truck/pickup that they like purely for aesthetics (hence high hood that looks cool).
Buy a minivan and drive those trucks in a video game, it is incredibly immature to buy one of those in real life if you drive anywhere near civilization.
Don't be so cismisandrist; cis men need gender affirming care too!