Fediverse vs Disinformation
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.
Community rules
Same as instance rules, plus:
- No disinformation
- Posts must be relevant to the topic of astroturfing, propaganda and/or disinformation
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Could be that Trump is responsible, in the same way that Reagan was in '80.
In other words, it wouldn't be the first time fascists deliberately delayed hostage negotiations to fuck over non-fascist US politicians, if that is indeed what happened.
Are you saying Biden wanted to end the war, but couldn't? Because I remember him circumventing congress to send military aid to Isreal, more than once. No one was forcing his hand, they were actually doing the opposite.
Hmm, good point.
What? Congress approved a bunch of aid, but needed to be notified when a chunk above a certain dollar amount got sent, and he skirted the rules to send big chunks without triggering the notifications. That's definitely not good, but it's not going around them to send more. Actually, when he briefly paused the already-approved aid, congress started squawking about how upset they were that he would do that.
When did he go around congress to send aid? I might have missed it but I'm not aware of that happening.
Yes congress approved a lot of it. But some of it was sent without approval.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/the-biden-administration-once-again-bypasses-congress-on-an-emergency-weapons-sale-to-israel
Jesus Christ. Okay, I stand corrected.
The difference being, we at least got the hostages back after Reagan was done treason'ing to win the election. Netanyahu is still going to kill Palestine, and Trump isn't smart enough or tough enough to stop him, and wouldn't care even if he was.