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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:

  1. No disinformation
  2. Posts must be relevant to the topic of astroturfing, propaganda and/or disinformation

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 day ago (5 children)

He’s quite literally an illegal alien.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

Fun fact, they made the Apollo astronauts go through customs when they came back from the moon.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

It was a joke by the State of Hawaii, from my understanding.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, it was clearly at least partly in jest, but apparently the form was real and they really did go through customs for real.

https://www.space.com/7044-moon-apollo-astronauts-customs.html

It does make sense. I don't think they wanted to set the precedent that coming back from certain types of spaceflight "didn't count" in terms of needing to pass through customs and it was just a free-for-all. It's the same way you still have to pay your taxes when you're the president, a relic of an older and more adherence-to-the-system time than the modern day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

It also drives home the old idealistic 'space is not owned, space is not for war' thing they were trying to push, at least in public, at the time.

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