Fediverse vs Disinformation
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.
Community rules
Same as instance rules, plus:
- No disinformation
- Posts must be relevant to the topic of astroturfing, propaganda and/or disinformation
Related websites
- EU vs Disinfo
- FactCheck.org
- PolitiFact
- Snopes
- Media Bias / Fact Check
- PEN America
- Media Matters
- FAIR
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Ingraham said the economy is “weighed down with $36 trillion and counting in debt,” calling it “weakness.” ...
Where do you think that giant fucking debt came from? Hint: republican tax breaks for the mega rich and military spending
Also a fair amount comes from the first Trump administration and their terrible handling of Covid.
If only we had a strong internal revenue service or something.
the entire national debt is due to tax cuts given to the wealthy over the last many decades. much, much more has been given to them over the years, transferred from lower and middle class to the wealthy, than what the debt is.
had those tax cuts and other policies that benefit only the very wealthy not happened, we could literally be living in a utopia seen only in movies.
Well, maybe. With globalization it's hard to keep them from putting things off shore or even just leaving entirely. I'm sure there's an involved solution that requires global cooperation, but there's always that threat so long as there's mega rich people out there.
The megahoarders are leeches on society anyway. Them leaving isn't a real threat. Putting things offshore is always an option but there are ways to reduce that loophole.
They cut spending on actually useful things but their tax cuts for the rich always overpower the cut in spending meaning that they only add to the debt.
Debt always goes up under Republicans.