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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When I looked into claims about Congress being lazy I learned a lot about how more bills used to be passed, but the bills were small. As time went on, less bills were passed but they had more in them. Which means that saying Congress is doing less because there's less bills doesn't really fit reality and how you'd talk about Congress if you knew anything about Congress. But politifact scores this as mostly true with a small tidbit where an expert brings up this exact problem; go by content, not bill numbers. You have to do work and think about what Congress is doing instead of picking a number out of a hat.
Which in turn highlights the problem with all these omnibus bills where you have to vote for the bombs for genocide bill if you want school lunch funding. Doesn't invalidate your point, but US politics is beyond bonkers.
Back in the 90s there use to be this cool thing called the “line item veto” where the president could strike certain parts of a bill and congress would need 2/3 to put it back in. Really helped with these omnibus bills, but congress didn’t like that the president could see through the bullshit and voted to take it away, so now it’s back to all or nothing
Congress didn't take it away. The Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution doesn't give the President the power to veto just one part of a bill. The veto is an all or nothing power. (Which also how the UK royal assent worked at the time the US Constitution was written.)
Ah thank you for the clarification