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
Matrix chat links
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I actually just watched a musical last night that was based off this topic. It was called newsies and it was about the new york paper boy strike. Same exact circumstance, the newspaper owners rose the cost of the paper because they knew that the child labor force they were using had to work for them in order to make ends meet.
Well they ended up striking, but the newspaper industries put out a topic ban on anything related to the strike because they knew it would negatively effect them if they ran the topics.
Life would be a lot simpler if we could just sing and dance our way through employment disputes.
Newsies trailer - Wiki