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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Important note about a Nazi that is clogging up SDF with a disinfo campaign (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You seem to be implying that this is impossible, which is a ridiculous thing to think

I was pointing out how a reading of the statement made could be that they were saying that all tankies are transphobic, some less open about it. That's a reading which is pretty inflammatory considering how a large portion of the trans community active on the fediverse is on "tankie" instances. The "tankie" instances also have had the strictest rules against transphobia out there.

So I would say that yes, the likelihood of all tankies' being transphobic (some sneaky about it) is near zero based on observable reality in this universe.

Also as discussed with draconicneo, that wasn't even the original intent behind the statement anyways, so I don't see why you need to rehash as if it was.