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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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@[email protected] is spreading a disinfo campaign trying to rebrand horrible ideas as "not nazi." I don't know where else to warn people about this. We are pushing for an instance ban, but the admin at SDF tends to be slow to reach.

Edit: Look at the modlog. I beg of any instance admin that sees the ban and removal reasons alone, including a ban reason of "tranny" , I hope to hell they break your instance rules. You should instance ban this moron to keep the spread down.

Edit 2: It has been more than a day now with not even a "We will look into it." kind of reply from the admin. It may be time to look into defederation. We are effectively abandoned.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Lot of trolls floating in lately. Got that stupid catfishing message a couple days ago in my DMs.

Seems that the current president cosplaying as king has emboldened the most toxic conservatives to crawl out of the woodwork.

I remember that happened in 2017 too, so we can probably expect them to get bored and fuck off somewhere else sooner or later

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Wait, the catfish happened to a bunch of people? Thought it was just a few, I ignored it when I got it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Weird right?

I think the catfish was targeting active commenters based on the post a bit ago about it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Huh, that's strange. Why active users specifically? Telling me to touch grass?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Probably easy to find usernames by just opening a post I’d guess

Touching grass is never a bad idea though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

Yea lol, was a joke more than anything.