this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2024
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Against Astroturfing and Social Media Manipulation

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Pointing out, fighting, spreading awareness about State sponsored and Company sponsored astroturfing on Lemmy and elsewhere. This includes social media manipulation, propaganda, and disinformation campaigns, among others.

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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13586199

Taking the fight to Reddit... FOR MONEY.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, this has happened and is likely still happening on lemmy (mostly for comments and not posts). see here.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Heard about that. It's not though to push some weird conservative view to top of all but I imagine it's a setup for is Lemmy ever becomes profitable.