Fediverse vs Disinformation
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:
- No disinformation
- Posts must be relevant to the topic of astroturfing, propaganda and/or disinformation
Related websites
- EU vs Disinfo
- FactCheck.org
- PolitiFact
- Snopes
- Media Bias / Fact Check
- PEN America
- Media Matters
- FAIR
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The main reason I don’t follow much left-leaning content online is because a lot of it is utterly depressing.
I’m sure there is a way to change the presentation of things to stop fueling doomerism without needing to outright sweep bad things under the rug.
Put more focus on the solutions than the issues, for a start. When covering the opposition, always do so by rightfully making fun of them as the clowns they indeed are. Picturing them as competent in any way indirectly gives them more power.
I personally don’t want another source of sadness and anger in my life, but I do want to be connected to other leftists and leftist ideas.
Left wing comedians like John Stuart, John Oliver, and Stephen colbert are the only way I'm staying sane. They deliver the worst of the news in a lighthearted manner.
The in-your-face topics of "society and culture" and "comedy" are close to evenly split.
The shows the right is dominating in are things like sports and wellness and spirituality with political sprinkles. The left didn't even have one show in the article's survey of those topics.
It's been a while since I was into podcasts but Srsly Wrong used to be one of my favorites for a more optimistic discussion of leftist theory.
Most of the left wing comedy I listen to or watch helps me stay sane, if anything. As your other commenter mentioned, John Oliver is pretty good, but even daily Colbert or Daily Show is ok TV-wise.
The podcast sphere is mixed as a ton of it is rage bait although I fell in more with the atheist crowd thanks to Citation Needed and God Awful Movies, but those folks have news shows I'm partial to that is the right level of funny to outrage balance for me.
Last week tonight with John oliver hits the right spot for me.
There's only so much of that show I can watch because it's "Here's how fucking godawful this thing is, but it gets worse"
There's just so much of that shit you can handle before you start digging a hole in the backyard.
if you only watch the main segment that gets posted to YouTube, that's definitely how it goes. The full show does a good job of sandwiching it between light-hearted, palatable goofs.
Oliver is a pretty good entry point. Then again so is Sam cedar. Although the recent episode of Jubilee He was on is enough to drive any sane person mad. He pretty well owned everyone he spoke against. But they were so smug and ignorant they thought they were winning the whole time. But the majority report is generally fairly upbeat and informative. Sam and his co-host pretty well know what they're talking about and are decent presenters
Sam Seder