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The Israel-Hamas War Is Drowning X in Disinformation::People who have turned to X for breaking news about the Israel-Hamas conflict are being hit with old videos, fake photos, and video game footage at a level researchers have never seen.

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[–] trailing9@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 year ago (6 children)

When lemmy becomes popular, how will we make the solid information stand out and not drown in disinformation ourselves?

Can we pull off an elite move and use the war to make lemmy popular right now by being the place on the internet that has the best collection of relevant and trustworthy X accounts?

[–] RaincoatsGeorge@lemmy.zip 44 points 1 year ago

For starters the decentralized nature of lemmy means no one person or group can control the narrative. An instance with good moderators can remove bad actors and there’s no good way for a large group to get a footing and spew bullshit to everyone.

The best part is those bad actors get to still be a part of the larger picture, can still engage with each other if they choose, they just cease to have any impact on everyone else. I believe I remember reading about how when the red pill q anons moved in and got mass defederated they complained because it’s just no fun to be a troll if the only people they can talk to is each other.

It’s why we as a global society need to swap to this platform and ditch twitter. He’s literally making it so verified accounts can set it so only other verified accounts can respond. The only idiots with blue check marks are racist conspiracy dickhead trolls. If we are going to continue to call that place the sort of global commons, we are fucked.

Decentralized networks with strong moderation tools are the only future for the internet that isn’t a cesspool of shit. Right now big corps fear this adoption because they cease to be able to buy their way into whatever they want. I do hope one day to see lemmy and mastodon spread further and gain a true foothold, we as a species must have this if we even remotely stand a chance of not spiraling into madness.

[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Stop all such posts like the above: naked external links.

When you want to link something, you must also add something personal to it, like your opinion, your own summary of what you think is the remarkable piece of news, your knowlege about the trustworthiness of that source, etc.

Prove that you are a human. Prove that you have delivered some quality content. Or try it at least. Failure is OK. Automated low effort posting is NOK.

IMHO that's the only way how we humans can stay 'above' the bots. Disinformation campaigns are using the same bots as information campaigns.

[–] dojan@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Perhaps a federation that has very curated posts? Thinking something like snopes.

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I think Wikipedia is working on this.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago

That would cause Lemmy to be immediately flooded with disinformation.

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Don't get your news from Hexbear will probably be a good start