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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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  1. No disinformation
  2. Posts must be relevant to the topic of astroturfing, propaganda and/or disinformation

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  • Virtually all economists, citing years of data and analysis, characterize tariffs as tax hikes rather than tax cuts, because much of the additional cost of the tariff is passed on to consumers through higher prices.

  • Several economists we interviewed said that it’s possible to argue that the added revenue to the treasury from raising tariffs could allow the government to lower taxes. However, analyses show that it’s unlikely even high tariffs could generate enough revenue to permit meaningful tax reductions for typical Americans.

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[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

It is a clear tax increase reflected in purchase cost hikes. It is also a general inflation burden cost in that domestic producers can hike prices and increase profits due to less competition. There is a revenue decrease effect as a result of retaliations that reduce jobs and sales abroad, and this effect lowers profit and job tax revenue.

The hopeful intent from the statement is that if all other economies agree to destroy themselves and send all of their manufacturing jobs to the US, then great prosperity for US will be achieved, though it still doesn't make it a tax cut, and that future is very far off if it is the slightest realistic. Until then, it is a tax hike, that also makes foreign manufacturing more competitive, especially if a nationalist hatred against unfair US practices results in appropriate industrial policy to destroy the US instead of submitting harder to it.