There’s a new one suddenly popping up in my feed but obviously the reports are being “resolved” by the mods of that community. They suggested to me that I block their community but I will not because that is how you get a cesspit of an instance. How do we report disinformation communities straight to the admins?
Edit: the admins did remove the community in question so I’m going to take that as the official stance on disinformation communities and also assume that any type of community (right wing, left wing, or other) that are intentionally spreading disinformation will be removed. That makes me feel much better about the situation since this type of thing is pretty much guaranteed to pop up again.
This is a terrible attitude to have towards disinformation.
We should defend the quality of the information we get through social media. It has considerable influence over how we perceived the world and live our lives.
There’s disinformation all over the internet, I block it and get on with my life.
Disinformation affects first hand those who don’t block it. It then sways them and affects everyone through democracy.
Putting blinders on doesn’t solve the issue
Are you implying liberals are too stupid to know misinformation when they see it and will become alt-right because of that? Give the left some credit lol
I don’t think I implied anything
Do you think it’s possible you or someone else might be wrong about something being disinformation?
Of course there’s no absolute certainty of what is or what is not.
Does it matter to that?
Yes, I think it matters greatly when making decisions to completely remove or silence other people. What’s your process for determining if something is disinformation?
What do you mean to remove or silence people?
How do you approach solving the issue?
Removing or silencing people as in removing users or communities from lemm.ee if their content is determined as disinformation.
And I don’t think communities or users with strong opinions should be removed or banned from a general purpose community. I think vote manipulation, brigading, repetitive automated posting, multiple accounts, and other ways of manipulating the system should be prohibited.
So, how do you personally determine that something is disinformation, and how to you distinguish this from your own opinion? I’m genuinely trying to understand your perspective here
I don’t have a personal stake here. I’m just trying to understand the different solution possibilities to this known existing issue, be it at a global or a platform level. Or is the idea to do nothing and let the adverse effects happen?
Are you sure your definition of disinformation is absolute truth? Maybe someone else comes along with a slightly different definition of disinformation. Which one of you makes the calls?
Why do you think this should be a global policy regulated by several admins as opposed to something we can each do ourselves?
Edit: Hey if you’re downvoting, consider contributing to the discussion by sharing why you don’t like this comment
No I don’t think I have absolute truth. I’m not the person in charge of this instance, so I don’t have a process for choosing between definitions.
It should be a global policy because admins are the ones with tools to deal with systemic disinformation campaigns. Also, some people can generally do it for themselves but nobody can always tell when they’re being manipulated.