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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The headline for the NPR article in question here is:
Betteridge's law of headlines applies.
It’s a general rule of thumb that if the headline asks a question the article will be a bunch of fluff where the answer ultimately becomes “no”
“Did we just break light speed?” Article talks about an experiment that on first evidence shows information travel faster than light. But then reveals there was a fatal flaw “turns out c is still a universal speed limit”
“Did we just make fusion work?” Again experiment shows that for 2 nano seconds output surpassed input, but it would hold, so “turns out fusion is still in it’s infancy”
Asking a question in the headline is journalistic click bait. Because the answer is no the headline can’t make a claim without loosing integrity, but questions look like claims and allow the author a lot more freedom.
somehow I hold on to hope the the headline was an informed, editorial jab. fucking sigh
Sounds more like the article actually says that his voters put faith in him.
Though with him looks like media constantly does the mistake of listening to what he says instead observing what he does.