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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.


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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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The Washington Post won’t say why it cancelled a six-figure ad buy calling for Elon Musk to be fired, but it’s likely the same reason the Post insisted Musk wasn’t Nazi-saluting on Inauguration Day, and why the paper killed its endorsement of Kamala Harris: because that’s what Jeff Bezos wants.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Because it’s a class war.

[–] Bakkoda 2 points 1 day ago

Sounds like censorship.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Bezos doesn't give two shits about Musk and isn't "looking out" for him - he just won't air criticisms of Musk that also apply to himself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

All of their businesses work together. Many of their staff have relationships at the opposing organizations. There's just not much to gain for these guys when it comes to burning bridges with each other.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I got heavily downvoted (in [email protected], of all places!) for trying to point that out a few days ago. Still haven't figured out why.

https://lemmy.world/comment/15154372

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Both of these fucks can go fuck themselves right in the ear!

[–] Pika 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Life would be a lot simpler if we could just sing and dance our way through employment disputes.