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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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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] 56 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Lot of trolls floating in lately. Got that stupid catfishing message a couple days ago in my DMs.

Seems that the current president cosplaying as king has emboldened the most toxic conservatives to crawl out of the woodwork.

I remember that happened in 2017 too, so we can probably expect them to get bored and fuck off somewhere else sooner or later

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

I agree! I saw their posts and was disgusted.

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

Their comments and posts seem to have been removed from the parent instance now

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nope. Still posting as of less than a minute ago. They may have earned an instance ban from your instance.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (2 children)

sdf.org needs a backup admin that is reachable badly.

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

I agree, they really do. I don't have too much hope for them otherwise. Even getting them to update their instance when it was on the broken 0.19.2 Lemmy version was like pulling teeth. They're ridiculously hard to contact. I was thankfully able to get that resolved but wow... I'm glad I didn't choose it as my primary instance.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I've emailed, tooted, and tagged the admin on Lemmy. I am fumbling through a BBS post in my phone. I can do no more except let people know to block this Nazi and please don't think the SDF instance appreciates or tolerates this Nazi BS.

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

It's a troll, and one of several I have seen over the last couple of days. There isn't much to go on now, but they could just be lost tankies or a single troll with multiple accounts that is just trying to get a rise out of people.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Quick correction: Domain is lemmy.sdf.org (fix missing period)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago

Thanks. I hate typing on my phone.

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