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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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[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Great info. ~~Awful website design.~~ Thanks for sharing this.

Edit: My usability complaint is fixed!

[–] vatlark@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm reading on a phone and I really thought the article style was cool. Maybe it was novelty but I liked that I could scroll quickly through it, or I could click on each data point.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I also think it's cool, but it traded away the basic usability of knowing if swipe down is doing anything or not.

A simple page progress indicator along the side would restore that, and plant this firmly in cool.

(And it did!)

[–] ericjmorey@discuss.online 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Agree, just make a static site. on mobile I had to keep scrolling multiple times to make all the animations happen

[–] C126@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

All seems too harsh. On mobile it was OK, probably made it easier to scroll through and read the whole thing without adhd kicking in.