Unruffled [they/them] @ Flatworm7591 @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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From a Politico article, we can see how the Russians are starting to talk about Harris. The Republicans aren't usually far behind...

“Kamala with the nuclear button is worse than a monkey with a grenade,” Andrei Sidorov, the dean of the global politics department at Moscow State University (a once highly respected institution) said Sunday evening on state television’s prime weekly talk show.

Edit: and then there's this: Unhinged Republican candidate calls Kamala Harris a “little wh*re” as GOP descends into misogyny

Totally agree. There's a much more thorough article on this here: https://www.thedrum.com/news/2024/07/22/shock-decision-google-abandons-third-party-cookie-deprecation-plans

It's hard to believe, right? Lol.

Thanks for the link!

!fediverse_vs_disinfo@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Thanks for the link :)

Sorry for the late reply. I didn't want to post a quick and unconsidered answer, and didn't have time to write a long reply at the time.

So who decides what’s disinformation?

My aim is to compile and maintain a list of credible sources and repost their content in this community, so it is more visible to Lemmy users and the wider Fediverse. At the end of the day, it's up to more people than just me to decide what topics to post on and what sources to use, since anyone can post. But as moderator, I will be quick to remove any content that doesn't fit the brief.

How do you correct it when something that has been called disinformation turns out to itself be disinformation? I’m thinking about things like the lab leak theory or the Hunter Biden laptop, both of which were called disinformation, but ended up being either plausible or true?

Those are interesting examples. Both are cases where there was a clear political motive behind the stories that were run (or not run) in the media. But in both cases I think it was pretty obvious to me, even at the time, that both stories were not being honestly covered.

Snopes had a pretty good take on the lab leak theory, and many well respected scientists also called for this theory to be properly investigated, even publishing an article in the journal Science.

With the Hunter Biden laptop story, the lack of media coverage on that was a form of censorship by omission, arguably, and is certainly notable in terms of media bias. And the widespread claims of the story being "Russian disinformation" by US "intelligence" officials were definitely an example of a US administration disinformation campaign to discredit the story. It's not just the Russians and Chinese who want to bury stories that make them look bad, after all.

But having said all that, I'm no more infallible than the next guy. But I'll do my best to post updates on situations that are evolving or where new information comes to light.

Appreciate the heads up 👍

I did read your comments which is how I know you have been very aggressive in this comment thread towards other users.

If you want to personally attack other users who don't share your views on religion, then please go do it somewhere else.

Meaningful discourse? Like when you tell people they make you sick simply because they pointed out that Christianity can be (and mostly is) a negative influence on progressive causes? Good for you if you are a socially progressive Christian, but no need to hate on other people just because they have a different imaginary friend, or none at all.

Also, https://torrentfreak.com/what-killed-fmovies-death-by-a-1000-cuts-one-killer-blow-or-possibly-both-240719/

Just some additional content around this post by @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com since the language settings didn't allow him to post in English (my bad!):

In which I talk about NATO Expansion, partly to debunk the idea that it caused the war but mostly as a springboard for explaining the evolution of the Russian-American relationship

Sarcasmitron

This video by YouTube historian Sarcasmitron takes a deep dive into the causes of the Ukraine war. This is one of a series of four video essays, in which he debunks the notion that the Ukraine war was caused by NATO expansion. Other videos in the series trace the historical and present-day influence of LaRouche conspiracy theories on the conflict, among other topics.

His full Ukraine War series playlist of four videos can be found here.

This series is highly recommended viewing if you want to get a better understanding of the origin of Russian disinformation campaigns on this topic, and the "maelstrom of self-exculpation, paranoia, and historical revisionism that has characterized not just modern Russia, but the world in general this past decade".

Oh yes, of course it's American aggression that's the problem here, not Chinese aggression.

I'm working on "enthickening" the snakey bit...

Your best/cheapest bet is a DNS Proxy because unfortunately UK tv channels are very quick to block VPN IP addresses, so they all tend to stop working quite quickly and then it's a game of whack-a-mole. I use smartdnsproxy, but there are others around that do a similar thing.

Yeah, FreeTube has been really solid for me. I'm dreading the day YouTube go the server-side ad injection route. It's surely inevitable, unless the costs to implement it outweigh the lost ad revenue maybe?

I thought that wanker looked familiar :p

Weird take.

In this video I discuss how Korean Telecom (aka KT Corp) deployed malware to the PC's of 600k of their customers who were using bittorrent applications to share files with one another. [Mental Outlaw]

If this checks out, and it seems to, this is the craziest shit I've ever heard of an ISP doing.

Edit: Invidious video link - https://yt.drgnz.club/watch?v=iRjdjck3obY

Those eyes are definitely saying, "How could you do this to me?"