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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.

Community rules

Same as instance rules, plus:

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

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No, cloud seeding wasn’t used to create Hurricane Milton (www.politifact.com)
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How the fuck are these morons even qualified to vote?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 hours ago

I think the problem is just how you define "weather". Cloud seeding can improve the probability of rain in a specific small area. But it's not viable for changing large scale weather patterns, and requires specific environmental conditions to be effective. So there's a vast difference between creating a hurricane, for example, and generating a localised rain cloud.