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
Related websites
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Yeah, it's not a natural combination of gestures. It takes changes in direction that you just don't do in combination for anything else but salutes.
Since the default salute is to bring the hand to the head before extending the arm, and the arm isn't held out for that, it doesn't even match the common US salute you might give. Normally, if you're saluting someone here, you either snap the hand to and away from the head, or you hold the salute at the head until the situation calling for the salute is over.
Even that, you aren't going to be practicing enough to make it an automatic response unless you've spent time on jobs where saluting is common.
Soooo, where has musky been that he's firing off that gesture often enough to make it in that situation? Why hasn't he been making it for years, if it was just something he does? Makes it read a lot more like someone finally feeling free to do something they've had to suppress.
Nailed it. Been saying it was probably an over enthusiastic gesture, but why was that gesture in his "vocabulary"?!
To add to your great post, Americans never throw an open-hand salute in a gesture of "fuck yeah!". We throw a closed fist, thumb knuckle up, punching almost straight out in front of our face.