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Fediverse vs Disinformation
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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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Actually, less. If we imagine our landmass as a circle for simplicity's sake, and we shrink it, the length of its circumference will decrease.
Not that I expect Trump to have any math skills.
On the contrary: coastline is infinite! ๐ค
As such, Trump is still definitely wrong because a new infinite coastline cannot be larger than the old infinite coastline.
(The reason your simplification doesn't work, by the way, is that a circle is a rectifiable curve and coastline isn't.)
It's not infinite though. It says so in the wikipedia article under critics and misunderstandings