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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] 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I just had a look at his profile again, and he keep posting shit, but so far seems to be mostly only posting new actual posts on his own communities on lemmy.sdf.org

Those communities are:

conservative

saynotogroomers

libsoftiktok

saynotonazis

I can't be arsed to link properly, and don't want to drive traffic to them, but these are the current communities on lemmy.sdf.org, where he is most active.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

A quick look at their comment and post history shows that they hate:

Trans people

Anime

Star Trek

Star Wars

...do they know they're on Lemmy...?

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

Well since they seem at least ambivilant on linux, perhaps not?

(Kidding, kidding.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Liking Linux but hating trans people is diabolical work. At least 25% of the userbase wear pink, blue and white thigh highs.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago

Seems like it might be the same asshole who spammed Rammy.site in the past and flooded it with hateful garbage.