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:
They are all paid by the same people, Its not that hard to see which side they are on.
Usually given the exact same script too
you mean a prompt to OpenAI api?
Sometimes? But even like 20 years ago when every single ABC/FOX/NBC anchor was literally given a script (teleprompter) the the way down to the local level and they were instructed to adhere to it as rigidly as possible
Edit: I exaggerate slightly, but not as much as you might think
ban illegal immigration
It is banned, that’s why it’s illegal
lol America may as well be a “third world country”
Why would anyone from a developed country come to the rapidly deteriorating US?
Idiocracy.
I've been saying for a while that America is an undeveloping nation.
"But what about the American dream?"
This time in history may well be called the "American Nightmare" assuming we wake up from it.
Subtlety is for the 2010s. We in the propaganda finger paint by numbers era now (and none of the numbers will be brown!).
except in Germany, brown is coming back big there
What the fuck is this outdated "third world" term?
Switzerland was neutral during the Cold War so are y'all banning the Swiss from immigrating?
Russia is technically 2nd world, so they're fine?
What is this dumb terminology lmfao.
Okay I think they meant "developing countries".
But why would someone from a developed region such as the EU immigrate to the US? The only reason why someone would want to come is because their country is already terrible and they want to take a risk, but if you ban them from coming, then you have zero immigration and your country collapses due to insufficient workers. Lol, dumbass politicians.
The term has been hijacked from it's original meaning, much like irony.
That said, it's so dumb. The folks from developing countries are much more likely to be on "their side". People from developing countries tend to be a great deal more religious. While folks from the EU tend to be less religious, and want more "socialist" programs from the government.
But of course they can't get over their racism to even make any good decisions.
Its the way they refer to poor nonwhite countries.
Developing works too, kind of.
Low income / high income is the most neutral way to frame it.
Plenty of high educated EU citizens migrate to the US for the higher wages though. Then move back home after a decade with a nice nest egg.
All those problems are the result of corporate greed.
Turns out chatbots are just "intelligent" enough to copy/paste shit and change it a little so it doesn't get automatically removed.
Also the DOJ told us these people take money from the Kremlin.
If you want less immigration then stop foreign policies that help fuck up other countries. Not saying that is the only cause but in the long run probably more effective than rounding up random people from the street.
When a group pf people all share the same one brain cell, they tend to repeat each other.
Most con shit is stupid by design, like those scam emails that are deliberately written in broken English so that only stupid people will fall for them. Why would they bother writing something complex when they need an army of morons to lap up the talking points?