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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To Cozy Up to Trump, Bezos Banishes Dissent From WaPo (fair.org)

submitted 1 day ago by Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fediverse_vs_disinfo@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Bravo, Jeff Bezos!”

That was the congratulatory message Elon Musk posted on X, the platform he bought for $44 billion in 2022 and subsequently turned into a pro-Trump bullhorn. Musk’s “bravo” was in response to Bezos’ shocking announcement that he was taking his media outlet, the Washington Post, in a Trumpian direction as well.

The Post’s opinion section will now advance Bezos’ “two pillars: personal liberties and free markets.” Anyone not on board with this “significant shift” can take a hike, Bezos seemed to tell Post employees, in a note he also shared on X (2/26/25).

That was Wednesday morning. By evening, Bezos was dining with President Trump.

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[–] CandleTiger@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago

Every single day for the past 50 years, my father has gotten up in the morning to go get the Washington Post and read it.

And while other people’s parents and siblings have slowly or quickly gone nutso watching Fox News, my father has not, and I could see he’s reading a real news source with real news in it reporting facts about things that happened. Biased, sure, selective, sure, but for all this time it’s been a paper that cares about reporting true things and describing the actual real world.

All I can say now is… fuuuuuuuuuuuck.

My father is not gonna stop reading that paper.

[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

Spineless cucks

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The WaPo was establishment propaganda even before JeffyB bought them, so really all that's happening now is that he's saying the quiet part out loud.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Nah, it's gone from neoliberal establishment propaganda to fascist propaganda. While both are awful, the latter is MUCH worse.

Expect them to for example change their take on cops from "the only way to stop cops from constantly murdering black people is to throw money at cops" to "actually, cops murdering black people is always justified, so let's give the cops even more money and also all the military hardware they want! (Only) Blue Lives Matter!”