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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Heads up, this author is weird.
Her feed is roughly 90% just generic pro-Palestinian stuff, which, sure, sounds fine, and then 10% of it is crazy shit:
I can't find the one where she was repeating Russian talking point dogwhistles about how NATO is trying to start World War 3, ~~or how Europe turning to clean energy is dooming them to economic ruin~~ (edit: I was wrong that was someone else), but ~~those were~~ (that was) in there somewhere too.
I have no idea why she's super gung ho about the intricate details of American politics and not as much about Australian politics (where she's from), either.
Anyway I can't really tell if it's malicious in some way, or if she just likes talking about American politics but isn't aware of any details about it beyond "Israel's the worst," but her viewpoint is often weird.
She's gotten more beside herself as the genocide proceeded with the genocidaires and their enablers firmly having the upper hand in most western nations with the possible exception of Spain. But she's spot on with this one, at least as far as people who don't simply eat what they're served from the media slop-trough are concerned.
Yeah, this article seems fine. Most of her articles seem fine. I'm just saying that "this very very pro-Palestinian person IS ACTUALLY AN ANTI-PALESTINIAN PERSON AND THEY ARE TERRIBLE ON PURPOSE AND FUCK YOU FOR THINKING DIFFERENT" is pretty suspicious to me however right she is with most of what she says.