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
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Is this really any crazier than the 2008 smear that attempted to assert Barack Obama was a gay prostitute by the name of Barry Sorento back in the 1970s? Or the attempt to claim Nancy Pelosi's husband's assailant was his secret gay lover engaged in a spat? Or the litany of accusations by right-wing AM radio freaks, insisting that Hilary Clinton was having lesbian affairs all over Little Rock while her husband was governor?
It's the same playbook every fucking time. We just have AI image generators now, so we can plaster a very obviously artificially generated image of Kamala's face superimposed over some random California sex workers and pass that around on Facebook for the next three months.
The biggest tell is that Kamala was in her twenties in the 90s, so any of these photos that would have been taken would have either been taken on a shitty little analog camera or it would have been a polaroid. You're not going to get 4k high-resolution photograph of her doing sex work back in the 90s because the technology simply did not exist.
Of course, the action never happened in the first place and you can't photograph something that doesn't exist.
You can Photoshop it, but you can't photograph it.