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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.
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- EU vs Disinfo
- FactCheck.org
- PolitiFact
- Snopes
- Media Bias / Fact Check
- PEN America
- Media Matters
- FAIR
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Here's the article. The headline now says:
According to the "last updated" field, the article was last updated 8 hours before OP made this post on Lemmy. ~~It's possible the headline was changed, but this may also have been the original headline -- I can't find any record of the previous headline on Reuters, including Internet Archive.~~ (Edit: the headline was changed; see comment.)
Seeing as this is "Fediverse vs Disinformation," I think posters have a duty to verify the web page actually reads the way they are claiming at the time they post, or else provide context that the headline has changed.
MSN still has the original title
do you have another archive link? are we sure this is actually the same original article because the entire content of the article is now different, not just the headline. how could we independently check?
This wasn't a hit but your skepticism is well tuned. Stay vigilant.
I think it's still important to provide the context that the headline has been changed.
It is, you're right. There could stand to be much stricter submission policies and review procedures on news submissions generally on this network, imho. It's tedious thankless work that desperately needs doing.