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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Posts must be relevant to the topic of astroturfing, propaganda and/or disinformation

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Fox host: "If they had National Guard troops in Times Square it would make me feel safer" (www.mediamatters.org)

submitted 3 days ago by technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fediverse_vs_disinfo@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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AINSLEY EARHARDT (FOX HOST): So the president implemented this Making D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force and in less than a week they've taken 100 violent criminals off the streets. I think it's great. I wouldn't mind seeing the National Guard, especially if it's in areas where there is a lot of crime. I mean, think about Times Square. There is a lot of crime there. We cover a lot of stories there. If they had National Guard troops in Times Square it would make me feel safer.

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[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Your opinion of North Korean cops is clear (I don't share it).

Listen to this North Korean defector's opinion of American cops. He compares what he's seen on American news with his own experiences in his home country. He was shocked to learn that [American] police could be so violent.

[–] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It's a shame their instance federation rules means they don't see our comments

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

cat-confused I thought it was either two way or no way.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Nope, Piefed has Hexbear and Lemmygrad auto-banned on DB init: https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/commit/f3e863d277932b55a15b1fe5043d750994fb8c14/app/cli.py#L116 Somehow it's broken, and as a result, their comments still federate to the instance, whereas ours do not.

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

            banned_instances = ['anonib.al', 'lemmygrad.ml', 'gab.com', 'rqd2.net', 'exploding-heads.com',
                                'hexbear.net',
                                'threads.net', 'noauthority.social', 'pieville.net', 'links.hackliberty.org',
                                'poa.st', 'freespeechextremist.com', 'bae.st', 'nicecrew.digital',
                                'detroitriotcity.com',
                                'pawoo.net', 'shitposter.club', 'spinster.xyz', 'catgirl.life', 'gameliberty.club',
                                'yggdrasil.social', 'beefyboys.win', 'brighteon.social', 'cum.salon', 'wizard.casa']

Are all the others porn instances?

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Some of those are far-right (exploding-heads, gab, poa.st, etc.)

[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

see my posts, you cowards frog-no-pretext