this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2024
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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.


Community rules

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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[–] polarpear11@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They made us take the ASFAB (sp?) I Christmas treed it and left. No consequences, no harassment from the military.

[–] sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

A bunch of my classmates all got 99 on the ASVAB when we took it in high school. The recruiters didn't bother talking to us for more than 5 minutes because they knew that we were not desperate enough to go into the military.

The people they tended to target were in the 45-85 range.

[–] ashok36@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I was thinking about going into the army. I took the test and got a 97. My options were nurse or truck driver. I declined to enlist.

[–] Classy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What does it mean to Christmas tree something?

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fill in random dots on a scantron test?

I've never heard the phrase, just a guess based on context.

[–] sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

This is correct