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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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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] 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lemmy probably needs a "Report Community" feature that goes to the Admins of the instance.

But I can say, the Admins are aware.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Help spread the word on this, we need instance admins all over to help stop this asshole.

CC:

dbzer0 admins@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]

lemm.ee admins@[email protected] @[email protected]

lemmy.blahaj.zone admins@[email protected] @[email protected]

beehaw.org admins@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]

pawb.social admins@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]

sh.itjust.works admins@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]

discuss.online admins@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]

lemmy.world admins@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]

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I apologize for pinging all of you, this is a serious issue and it's faster to ping like this than to message everyone individually.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We banned him a few hours ago. In the future, please at least navigate to the major servers and check their modlogs before pinging the admins.

Admins usually notify other admins fairly quickly about stuff like this. But in this case the other admins (myself) aren't going to know if the user had already banned by one of our colleagues, so we end up having to check multiple times.

It's all good though, I appreciate your urgency.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh I see, sorry I didn't check sooner. I'll try to check the modlog next time (hopefully there isn't a next time).

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thank you for bringing it to our attention, already banned from Lemmy.world, will communicate with the other admins to see if more action is warranted.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't mean to backseat moderate but is a 7 day ban really the best option in this situation as opposed to a permanent one with content removal? I mean this isn't an average scenario, this is an extremist user spreading hate and disinformation, and for that they get only a 7 day ban?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is a temporary measure until I can discuss it futher with the other admins. I think they'll agree a perma-ban is warranted.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Ok that's good to know. I sure hope they do.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Hijacking this useful ping to say that I absolutely would not hold a grudge over defederation due to this. We can't get in touch with the admin. They are likely asleep. Please remember, though, that aside from this BS, it is just a quiet nerdy instance full of Unix lovers.

Edit: autocorrect typos

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

Me neither. If the mods don't respond to or address this issue by tomorrow I will begin advocating defederation from lemmy.sdf.org because if they aren't willing or able to moderate hate speech, then they aren't a safe instance to be on or be around.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, seems like they need a spare emergency admin or two in different time zones. Hell, every instance that doesn't require approval to create communities needs those, imo

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Most instances with a larger userbase really need to have a 24 hour team, "mods are asleep" should never happen on a server with a large userbase. The disruptions that can cause in cases like this are unacceptable.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It is a bad look for a non-profit that does some genuinely cool stuff.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thanks for the heads up.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

You are welcome. I'd recommend not looking at the local feed for a while.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I just had a look at his profile again, and he keep posting shit, but so far seems to be mostly only posting new actual posts on his own communities on lemmy.sdf.org

Those communities are:

conservative

saynotogroomers

libsoftiktok

saynotonazis

I can't be arsed to link properly, and don't want to drive traffic to them, but these are the current communities on lemmy.sdf.org, where he is most active.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago

Seems like it might be the same asshole who spammed Rammy.site in the past and flooded it with hateful garbage.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Yeah, I saw that guy recently and blocked the communities that he seemed to be running.

I then tagged him as "Conservative Dickhead" in Voyager, though I'll be updating that to be simply "Nazi".

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Tomato, tomato.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, at first I want to give the benefit of the doubt, but after reading here I decided to just spell it out for myself

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Might as well have some pizzazz though. Naziwanker? Schutzstaffelcockmuncher? Adolf Rimjobber?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I thought about it, but if I am going to call someone a Nazi, I don't want to make a joke about the situation.

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