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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] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What the hell? Why are you making random unfounded bad faith accusations towards me. I pinged the ones that came to mind, mainly the ones I know and also are admins of the ones I'm part of.

In case you're wondering the reason I didn't ping hexbear or lemmy.ml is the same reason I didn't ping literally any others than the ones listed. They didn't cross my mind when I was thinking of teams to ping.

You really need to work on not inferring bad faith in others' actions and pouncing on them preemptively. It makes it seem that your actions are in and of themselves in bad faith.

CC: @[email protected] @[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't know what you expect me to do here by pinging me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Just wanted to bring attention to this hostile bad faith behavior which doesn't seem like something that is welcome here in this community. Also the fact that he's lashing out over reports due to his uncivil behavior:
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/37004617/16455785

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I'm not a mod of this comm. But in any case, hostile bad faith from hexbears is sort of their default against anyone who they don't perceive to be in their camp.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That is true. I did ping Unruffled as well, so we'll see what he thinks about it. Should probably ping @[email protected] as well. His lemmy.world account won't be able to see it, but his dbzer0 one should.

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

Hey buddy, don't take anything Carcosa says too seriously, they were just here to cause pointless drama.

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

Yeah I figured as much, they weren't contributing anything meaningful to the discussion. The fact they had to make up lies proves they had no intention of engaging in good faith at all.