Fediverse vs Disinformation

1207 readers

286 users here now

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

Matrix chat links

founded 9 months ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

British Writer Pens The Best Description Of Trump I’ve Read - London Daily (londondaily.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

7 comments fedilink hide all child comments

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18533065

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I would disagree that it misses the point - I agree with your assessment of trump, but I think “the point” the article is addressing is not why-do-trump-supporters-support-trump, but rather “why do journalists write as if trump is normal?”

There’s a fundamental break with common sense that the article is addressing. How many of those lines would, by themselves, have been a devastatingly accurate headline if it were in the News (not Opinion) section of NYT, WaPo, or even USA Today?

As an example:

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

More to the point - WHY aren’t news reporters able to state these plain and obvious facts?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My guess is it at least partly has to do with the vast majority of US media being beholden to viewership (advertising) and subscriptions. They are afraid of losing customers, so they bend over backwards not to piss them off.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Well - yeah. That, and the owners are all republiQans.