Don’t forget to cancel prime too.
this post was submitted on 01 Mar 2025
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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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Just did. Fuck that piece of trash bezos. He needs to be reminded who outnumbers the filth like him.
Ban WaPo from the Fediverse
I wouldn't suggest a blanket ban, because it may be useful in the future to link their articles to discuss how biased they have become.
If someone links to them as a serious news source, remind them of this declaration of their opposition to truth.
Every single day for the past 50 years, my father has gotten up in the morning to go get the Washington Post and read it.
And while other people’s parents and siblings have slowly or quickly gone nutso watching Fox News, my father has not, and I could see he’s reading a real news source with real news in it reporting facts about things that happened. Biased, sure, selective, sure, but for all this time it’s been a paper that cares about reporting true things and describing the actual real world.
All I can say now is… fuuuuuuuuuuuck.
My father is not gonna stop reading that paper.
I'm probably your father's age and I have cancelled my subscription.
The WaPo was establishment propaganda even before JeffyB bought them, so really all that's happening now is that he's saying the quiet part out loud.
Nah, it's gone from neoliberal establishment propaganda to fascist propaganda. While both are awful, the latter is MUCH worse.
Expect them to for example change their take on cops from "the only way to stop cops from constantly murdering black people is to throw money at cops" to "actually, cops murdering black people is always justified, so let's give the cops even more money and also all the military hardware they want! (Only) Blue Lives Matter!”
Can we ban Bezos from living? kthxbai
Hopefully his space ship blows up next time he wants to go to space.
Spineless cucks