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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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The liberal establishment's war on the New York City mayoral candidate reflects panic over a growing left challenge to Zionist orthodoxy and the mainstreaming of Palestine solidarity

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe. The natural reflex is to point out the horrors of capitalism, but people are more okay with that.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Not "maybe". Countries were screwed over by communists, people murdered in the thousands with famines that killed millions. People excusing communism - either the Soviet Union or China are delusional.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Then fix capitalism because this shit is busted.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago

"whatabout" doesn't get you anywhere. There aren't just two systems. Because newsflash, communism "is busted" too.

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

Isn't the problem there authoritarianism? The Nazis were also authoritarian shitheads, but not communists.

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

Communists absolutely were authoritarian shitheads.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Yes, I wasn't denying that but it isn't limited to communists.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Source: Author's ass crack.

These claims come from the "Black Book of Communism", an old propaganda piece with wildly bullshit claims (provably so)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

These "claims" as you put it come from a person who has lived in an area and talked to their parents and grandparents about it. So stay in your lane with your "hurr durr propaganda". Soviets were war criminals, not a utopia and anyone saying otherwise is the one that's brainwashed by history revisionism.