The amount of propaganda bots trying to sign up lately is bonkers.
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@jerry I feel this. Every time I check out Lemmy these days, there is a bunch of weird political rage bait junk getting dumped into popular memes pages, and every time it seems to be getting just a little more subtle and sneaky.
Unless you're making liberal use of filters, it would he hard not to get pushed to one extreme or the other.
@abmurrow yeah for sure, the threadiverse is becoming concentrated propaganda lately. I found it’s better after having blocked a few specific instances though.
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The amount of propaganda bots trying to sign up lately is bonkers. The fediverse feels like it’s becoming a battleground for information warfare. Be safe out there
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@abmurrow yeah for sure, the threadiverse is becoming concentrated propaganda lately. I found it’s better after having blocked a few specific instances though.
The fact that the developers of one of the main engines of the Threadiverse are already politically biased, and thus their flagship instances are as well, does not help things much either. -
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The amount of propaganda bots trying to sign up lately is bonkers. The fediverse feels like it’s becoming a battleground for information warfare. Be safe out there
@jerry every election year and midterm...
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@jerry on a thoroughly unrelated topic, can you remind me what the last 4 of your SSN are? just filling out some forms, nothing serious
Let's see. Social Security Number? "Nought-nought-nought, nought-nought, nought-nought-nought-two." Damn Roosevelt.
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The amount of propaganda bots trying to sign up lately is bonkers. The fediverse feels like it’s becoming a battleground for information warfare. Be safe out there
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The amount of propaganda bots trying to sign up lately is bonkers. The fediverse feels like it’s becoming a battleground for information warfare. Be safe out there
@jerry The local timeline on sigmoid.social is 99% disinfo bots now
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@jerry The local timeline on sigmoid.social is 99% disinfo bots now
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The amount of propaganda bots trying to sign up lately is bonkers. The fediverse feels like it’s becoming a battleground for information warfare. Be safe out there
@jerry I realize this wouldn't work for everybody, but the number of bots trying to sign up to CoSocial.ca is zero, because we require that members pay $50 a year to run the service.
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@mek2600 @catsalad@infosec.exchange @jerry Domestic housewives imply the existence of feral housewives
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@mek2600 @catsalad@infosec.exchange @jerry Domestic housewives imply the existence of feral housewives
@catsalad@sigmoid.social @catsalad @jerry Now we're talkin! I wonder if there are any feral housewives in my area...
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@idlebrain one of the biggest challenges I’ve run into is defining where the line is between propaganda, and someone’s heartfelt genuine belief. Particularly if you consider that generally people who have a particular view will consider opposing views this propaganda.
@jerry @idlebrain It's propaganda if they are being dishonest and wilfully spreading misinformation.
It's possible to have genuinely differing beliefs as long as we can agree on basic facts. Unfortunately the current media landscape, combined with chatbots, has made many people completely detached from reality.
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The amount of propaganda bots trying to sign up lately is bonkers. The fediverse feels like it’s becoming a battleground for information warfare. Be safe out there
Block and report
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@jerry @idlebrain It's propaganda if they are being dishonest and wilfully spreading misinformation.
It's possible to have genuinely differing beliefs as long as we can agree on basic facts. Unfortunately the current media landscape, combined with chatbots, has made many people completely detached from reality.
@jairajdevadiga @jerry @idlebrain we can't see into their minds though; what if they honestly believe that 5G causes cancer and have scientific studies to prove it? Part of the modern disinformation goal is to muddy all forms of reality.
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@catsalad@sigmoid.social @catsalad @jerry Now we're talkin! I wonder if there are any feral housewives in my area...
@mek2600 @catsalad@sigmoid.social @catsalad@infosec.exchange @jerry I think they call those cougars.
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The amount of propaganda bots trying to sign up lately is bonkers. The fediverse feels like it’s becoming a battleground for information warfare. Be safe out there
@jerry It's a component of growth sadly, Fediverse engagement rates are ridiculously high compared to other platforms.
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The amount of propaganda bots trying to sign up lately is bonkers. The fediverse feels like it’s becoming a battleground for information warfare. Be safe out there
@jerry
They rapidly change their tactics re: usernames and especially the descriptions. Seems the shift gears weekly.The one thing that's always constant are the random email domains with common links behind them.
They're pretty easy to spot, but only because I'm hyper aware of them.
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@jairajdevadiga @jerry @idlebrain we can't see into their minds though; what if they honestly believe that 5G causes cancer and have scientific studies to prove it? Part of the modern disinformation goal is to muddy all forms of reality.
@wilbr @jairajdevadiga @jerry @idlebrain
it doesn't matter if they sincerely believe it or not
a lie is a lie
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@wilbr @jairajdevadiga @jerry @idlebrain
it doesn't matter if they sincerely believe it or not
a lie is a lie
@benroyce @wilbr @jairajdevadiga @idlebrain I argue that propaganda doesn’t have to be a lie to be propaganda. I am reminded of my time in China - the news there only covered accomplishments and successes in China and only covered problems and failures from western countries. None of it was a lie. But it was definitely propaganda. That is what we are seeing a lot of here. Plus, it’s often challenging to determine what is true or not without an army of fact checkers at our disposal.
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The amount of propaganda bots trying to sign up lately is bonkers. The fediverse feels like it’s becoming a battleground for information warfare. Be safe out there
Physically/manually scrutinize all follower requests. Check any new sources in your feeds. Many wankers appear in mine.
