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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Important note about a Nazi that is clogging up SDF with a disinfo campaign (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org to c/fediverse_vs_disinfo@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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@ashton1593@lemmy.sdf.org is spreading a disinfo campaign trying to rebrand horrible ideas as "not nazi." I don't know where else to warn people about this. We are pushing for an instance ban, but the admin at SDF tends to be slow to reach.

Edit: Look at the modlog. I beg of any instance admin that sees the ban and removal reasons alone, including a ban reason of "tranny" , I hope to hell they break your instance rules. You should instance ban this moron to keep the spread down.

Edit 2: It has been more than a day now with not even a "We will look into it." kind of reply from the admin. It may be time to look into defederation. We are effectively abandoned.

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[–] shadow@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Thanks for the heads up.

[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 3 days ago

You are welcome. I'd recommend not looking at the local feed for a while.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's a troll, and one of several I have seen over the last couple of days. There isn't much to go on now, but they could just be lost tankies or a single troll with multiple accounts that is just trying to get a rise out of people.

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 days ago

My bets are it's a single troll. Most tankies don't go straight for transphobia.

[–] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

I agree! I saw their posts and was disgusted.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Their comments and posts seem to have been removed from the parent instance now

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[–] nifty@lemmy.world -4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (8 children)

Okay, so I feel partly guilty because my pov has been that I want to poke at what I think is hivemind behavior and take on devils advocate perspectives. I don’t think it’s worth it if literal nazis feel like they have a place to comment here. I hate it when there are posts that go unchallenged while advocating for clearly disingenuous and misstated opinions. But yeah, I think I’ll just block out the Marxist political content instead.

[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 days ago

Don't worry. The troll is competent and the org doesn't have the bandwidth to deal with this. To all that may see this: defederation should be on the table

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