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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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Okay, so through some process, I got signed up to get emails from Chris Hedges and some other unsavory sources. They periodically come into my inbox to tell me that Ukraine is all NATO's fault or something, and I more or less ignore them as I do most of the gibberish tide that comes into my inbox, but this one drew my attention.

What do they want me to believe about Ghislaine Maxwell, I wonder?

She has given few interviews, few statements, made few attempts to interfere with the prevailing narrative that she is a monster and a predator who deserves everything she got. When you leave a lot of empty space, others fill it, project onto it their own assessments, conclusions, and theories.

Yeah, others like a jury of her peers. They projected a whole bunch of evidence into some assessments and conclusions, and that's why she's in the clink. I guess I was a little bit surprised that even they have started up with this tactic. Anyway I thought it was interesting that at least some of the propaganda brigade has taken up the mantle of "You know we shouldn't automatically assume that active predatory pedophiles are bad..."

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