Don't stop feeling the rage. Don't calm down. We are all being fucked over, intentionally.
this post was submitted on 30 Dec 2024
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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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Sure, but use it constructively. Don't let it hurt your mental health without providing any positive impacts.
A relevant part from the article:
I think local community politics is how you can build a kind of feeling of safety and understanding among a group, like, “Oh, actually, there are concrete things I can do, or we can do, to organize and think about how we challenge the status quo we disagree with.”
Rage does something to your brain and body people don't really recognize. It motivates you in the moment but it doesn't give you stamina, and it clouds judgement. It's important to be both calm and decisive about the world and what's going on in it if we want to fix it.
So the trick is to use it to your advantage when it happens, not to live in a constant state of rage. Rage is exhausting. If you can't calm down and maintain focus, rage is not your friend and you should find a different motivator.
Doubt that media agencies want people in an state of doing something useful. Whatever state people are put into when seeing news is quite probably not a good state for actually changing things.