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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.


Community rules

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] 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

I think you folks are biased

And? You're acting again as if you were the only neutral person in the world. Everyone has bias. You have (far) right wing bias. It's about being aware of the bias and knowing not to be as biased when making decisions that matters.

Decisions like whether or not you want to be on the side of Nazis, for example.

and that’s why I don’t care about the bans.

And that's what I meant with "you're debating in bad faith".

I'm writing long paragraphs with specific points to address. You are only writing 2 shitty lines that don't even address my points.

2 lines that openly contradict each other too. You cannot say at first "but they banned me 🤷‍♀️" and then immediately "but I actually don't care about the ban".

Talk to me about having biases again?

This is the last thing I'll write to you by the way. I value my time too much to waste it writing comments to rightwing trolls who are unwilling to have an actual conversation and be critical of themselves.

I will block you as well if necessary because I don't want to have people in my feed who repeat Nazi and transphobic talking points, or who are against DEI and CRT.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 17 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 minutes ago* (last edited 4 minutes ago)

Happily!

And thank you for proving that all you arguments were just absolute bullshit