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Fediverse vs Disinformation

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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.

Community rules

Same as instance rules, plus:

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

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A sociologist’s thoughts on how disinformation has emerged from the shadows - PEN America (pen.org)
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Joan Donovan, an award-winning sociologist who founded the Critical Internet Studies Institute, is known for her work studying media manipulation, extremism and disinformation campaigns. We talked to Donovan about how political disinformation has shifted from shadowy social media accounts to an open and brazen strategy.

Visit us @ [email protected] for all the latest news on the topics of astroturfing, propaganda and disinformation.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This is somehow descriptive, opinionated and underanalysing. There is a lot of political strategy mentioned, but questions like why, who (societally) and where remain mostly untouched.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Astute observation and well put.