this post was submitted on 15 May 2025
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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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Same as instance rules, plus:

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

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I wrote the book Copaganda based on my years of being a civil rights lawyer and public defender representing the most vulnerable people in our society. I watched as the police and the news media distorted how we think about our collective safety. Copaganda makes us afraid of the most powerless people, helps us ignore far greater harms committed by people with money and power, and always pushes on us the idea that our fears can be solved by more money for police, prosecution, and prisons. Based on the evidence, this idea of more investment in the punishment bureaucracy making us safer is like climate science denial.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (4 children)

DA fuk. When did teen vouge go woke

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

Like ten years ago

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Please speak respectfully about Comrade Teen Vogue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Obviously they are part of the vanguard

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Insert "always has been" meme here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Yep, oddly enough Teen Vogue has delivered some pretty serious journalism for a while now. No idea what it's like in general lol but I've been impressed with instances of their work for years. Like, impressed above and beyond almost any other journalism, not just impressed by the contrast between their hard-hitting work and what the branding would seem to suggest.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Rolling Stone used to be the same way, nowadays not so much