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China is flooding Taiwan with fake news and disinformation ahead of a major election. Here’s how it’s fighting back (edition.cnn.com)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by 0x815@feddit.de to c/news@beehaw.org

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Cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/6763982

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[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You should use the original link as the post link, then lemmy will automatically reference the cross-posts (also the cross-post link will be instance agnostic so it won't pull people out of their local instance).

If you edit the post it should sort itself out.

[–] 0x815@feddit.de 9 points 2 years ago

Thanks, didn't know that. It's corrected now.

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hm, could you explain how is that supposed to work in more detail? I still see the cross post link as taking me to the other instance; furthermore, even the share link and "open in browser" in Liftoff are taking me out of the instance 🤔

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

I think maybe not all apps show the automated cross-post link - I'm not seeing it right now on Jerboa. But yeah I think basically your instance checks the link against all other links it has (both local communities and federated) then it just adds cross-post links for each one, as well as a link to the new post in the old posts.

[–] derbis@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Hrm, so... There is a chat bot installed in Line that monitors all incoming messages and inserts itself when it it's triggered by something said in a private conversation?

As much as I want disinformation fought I'm extremely wary of this approach.

[–] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It looks like it's just a bot you have to invite into your chat: https://checkcheck.me/en/

This isn't like Discord's Clyde that sometimes just pops up to put the app's internal messages into a conversation style chat, this is a chatbot by an independent company.

I don't think I'd want this bot to listen in on DMs, but this doesn't seem all that harmful in most group chats I participate in.

[–] derbis@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Ah, that's rather better if it's voluntary.

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

So they’re like Fox News?