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
- EU vs Disinfo
- FactCheck.org
- PolitiFact
- Snopes
- Media Bias / Fact Check
- PEN America
- Media Matters
- FAIR
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It occurs to me that this could be corporate or even governmental.
Otherwise it's a lot of time and thought going into nothing or at best a long game. Very sad.
This is automated, not even that hard to code. More so if done in an separate instance. Also not hard to detect and autoban in theory on regular instances.
Lemmy needs a decentralized reputation system where all the big instances score people automatically so the fakes don't appear at all.
Hard to do in a manner that is resistant to gaming by bad actors (see: Reddit).
If darknet markets can do it, so can we. I'm a distributed systems security specialist. This is existing technology. We would require something like spamhouse etc. Everybody can run an email sever, but building reputation takes a bit. Blockchain can do some parts of that to make it auditable.
Not my area of expertise, so, I'd defer to those such as yourself. I absolutely think it's possible but, not simple to do in a resilient manner. Even with a publicly auditable ledger, there's a risk of becoming realistically unauditable due to massive quantity of data (as seen in some open source projects), which would need mitigations.
If you have any recommended readings or the like on such things, I'd appreciate them.
I'm not automated.
Yet.
So if it's "going into nothing," then why is everyone so mad? If no one cares or reads, then no reason for people in this thread to be upset. Right?
How is that really an accomplishment? I mean, in a way breaking a window is a creative act. It changes something, makes it different.
But it doesn't add any energy, any thought, any creative juice, to the human mix. It just contributes entropy. Made everything a little worse.
Working with chaos is always easier. It's always easy to let the undertow pull you out to sea. It's so much harder to fight it and swim back to shore.
No, you mean you personally don't THINK that it adds any of that. I realize that the majority of Lemmy's are not conservative. But there are conservatives on Lemmy and they DO appreciate me, and I've gotten DM's from them. But they are afraid to be public about it.
Is that really what you want Lemmy to be? People afraid to voice their real opinions because of bullying?
Let's say this became a Twilight Zone episode. And suddenly overnite, Lemmy was majority Conservative.
And they said, "Guys, we should autoban anyone who is liberal or a Democrat. They're all trolls."
Now first off, you'd think, "of course conservatives are like that, they hate different opinions." Then you'd be pissed.
Guess what? You all are the conservatives in this Twilight Zone episode.
Take every comment in this thread and switch out the words "conservative" with "liberal" or "leftist." And see how hateful ti seems. Even tho you only changed the specific words.
I'm not a troll.
People here don't like me. Cool. But that doesn't mean I'm a troll.
I don't post to make them hate me. I post, and they hate me. Big difference.
It's intent.
I would be more than happy to be ignored. But that doesn't mean I should get banned.
I mean, let's face it. If I get banned, I could be back in 10 minutes with a totally different name. So it's not the actually banning, it's the principle.
And I will keep fighting for that principle. Ban or no ban.
I'm retired. I have all the fucking time in the world to argue.