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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We could apply our creativity to find loads of ways to meaningfully chip away at the problem.
If we valued kids' lives more than our little gun cult.
Which we obviously don't because we sit here and throw up our hands like this instead of thinking of ways it could happen. And what's worse, we try to pretend that that's being reasonable.
Didn't say it was reasonable to give up and not try. Just was commenting on the complexity of the problem, as there are a lot of people that act like there's some quick "pull off the bandaid" solution that everyone is too stupid to just do.
There are a lot of steps forward we should be doing that don't require a lot of creativity either.
Laws on what is banned and isn't need to be based on quantifiable statistics of the gun's capabilities rather than... whatever the fuck you want to call the current rules. There are firearms with wooden stocks that are 100% legal for civilian ownership that are far more deadly (in terms of shots per minute) than "scarier looking" firearms with black plastic/polycarbonate furniture that are banned from civilian ownership. Can't remember the specific models but they both fire the same caliber rounds.
Close the obvious loopholes. Ensure enough funding to regulatory orgs that guns being passed on when a family member dies or goes into elder care are actually tracked. I know my brother in law didn't fuck around when it came to my father in law's guns, but it's not like anyone was checking.