Disinformation is the deliberate use of lies to manipulate people, whether to extract profit or to advance a political agenda. Its unwitting accomplice, misinformation, is spread by unknowing dupes who repeat lies they believe to be true. In America today, both forms of falsehood are distorting our perception of reality.

In a democracy, the people need a shared set of facts as a basis to debate and make decisions that advance and secure their collective interests. Differences of opinion, and even propaganda, have always existed in the United States, but now, enemies of democracy are using disinformation to attack our sovereign right to truthful information, intellectual integrity, and the exercise of the will of the people. Online disinformation is particularly insidious because of its immediacy, its capacity to deceive, and its ability to reach its target.

  • HACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.social
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    8 months ago

    >Yeah, actually, it does

    no, it doesn’t. a claim made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. when someone is asked to support their position, and they instead attack the person asking, no one should believe their claim.

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      8 months ago

      a claim made without evidence

      Good thing I didn’t make a claim, then. You said I had to defend my position when I do not, that’s all that I said.

      when someone is asked to support their position, and they instead attack the person asking, no one should believe their claim.

      I agree. Unless said person has a history of participating in bad faith, like yourself.

      You can add user notes to people on Lemmy, I have one for you and am quite familiar with your complete lack of basic conversational skills thanks to it.

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        8 months ago

        >You can add user notes to people on Lemmy,

        you can do that on mastodon, but it’s not a core feature of lemmy. are you using the paid, proprietary client for a free software, federated protocol platform?

        gross.

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          8 months ago

          are you using the paid, proprietary client for a free software, federated protocol platform?

          First: there’s more than one paid app

          Second: No, I didn’t pay for the app I’m using

          Third: Entirely irrelevant to the discussion, as usual