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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Posts must be relevant to the topic of astroturfing, propaganda and/or disinformation

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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] 6 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

I stopped responding because I got banned 🤷‍♀️

You got banned 12 hours ago from comics.ml for exactly 6 days. And you were temporarily banned because you kept being troll-y and not engaging in good fate. You were laughing at the people downvoting you, telling everyone that they didn't understand anything they were saying and that only you were the one who truly knew what they were talking about. That is troll behavior. Period. I know because when I get heated, sometimes I do it too and I know that's just trolling.

While 8 days ago you were banned from blahaj.zone because your views got you labeled as bigot. You might say you are not, but what is the difference if at the end of the day you just happen to keep saying the same things that other bigots say? In the eyes of anyboutsider, you're just another bigot.

Finally, let's get something straight: I am not here to convince you of what you did. Nor I wish to debate about whether or not what you did was correct, the mods actions justified or anything else like that.

I am simply telling you, as an outsider, that your actions are mirroring the same actions of those that eventually started hanging out with fascists and Nazis because they alienated everyone else in their blind reactions and hate.

What you do with this information is entirely up to you, my friend.

There will be no amount of words that I can say that could convince you of that unless you think that yourself.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

I think you folks are biased, and that’s why I don’t care about the bans.