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.
Same as instance rules, plus:
The "video" even zooms in on the button that can toggle the feature on and off.
Women look at the red car to the right, then the red car is on left when it accelerates. No human producer would make that mistake.
I live in an extremely humid area, and I can tell immediately when the engine stops, because it starts bringing in the heavy, outside air. I turn off auto stop every single time. I'd prefer not to have it in my car.
On the other hand, obviously fuck this bullshit ad. The content of the ad is gross, the use of stereotypes is gross, the fact that it's generative AI is gross, and it's especially gross that all this is coming from the government. I'm disgusted by this whole thing, and it's only 8AM, which is actually a little late in the day to start feeling disgusted by the Trump regime now that I think about it.
The brake lights aren't the only thing. When the camera changes and the red car is zooming away you can see the cross streets change and maybe even has a stop light extremely high on a telephone pole?
I hate auto stop. Its just an excuse for automanfautures to produce larger vehicles while claiming better "fuel economy", but at the cost of higher maintenance. There should have been a push for hybirds and phev's which have far greater fuel economy without the negative maintenance costs.
~~There is some added complexity but the way they restart the engine without using the started motor pretty clever and avoids added wear on the starter motor. It's mostly just new software as far as I know.~~
I was wrong, looks like most of them do use the starter, even if they use a charge in the cylinder. https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a15126526/engine-stop-start-technology/
Some will have beefier starters. Some just charge more for a longer warrenty and be exactly same as the non-stop-start models. (Which doesnt help when you get stranded and have to call for a tow)
I also just noticed that the street looks very different depending on whether the camera is placed behind the cars or behind the cars but higher up, at the 13th second of the video there is a noticeable change.