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
Matrix chat links
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I banned a few of them from SJW yesterday. When I get some free time I can go through the list of candidates and ban the obvious impersonators. It would be easier if UniversalMonk didn't have so many alts to begin with.
And don't forget: UniversalMonk@sopuli.xyz
Cuz that's not me either.
But I have to have so many alts because of things happening like this very thread. People calling me out for banning. For posting links to news articles written by major news pubs.
But I am totally fine with you banning the impersonators. Would you like me to go thru the list and tell which ones are not me? First off, any that say "Real" are not me. But some of the others aren't either.
Is that you openly admitting to ban evasion, as in creating multiple accounts so that admins have to put in more work banning you? @kersploosh@sh.itjust.works I think you might want to take that into consideration of your judgement of this person, since they are clearly being banned a lot and are deciding to circumvent those bans openly. Probably better to just ban all of them, impersonation or not. Since they already admit they're using the other accounts to evade bans.
CC: @QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz