#Mastodon on the #decentralized #fediverse is the only #place in the #world that will #protect you from:

#government #censorship

#age #verification

#privacy #rights #violations

#shadow #banns

#unlawful #targeting

#phishing

#data #mining

#identity #theft

#content #policing

#social #engineering

#tracking

#fingerprinting

#extortion

#cyber #crime

#digital #ID

#wrong #think

#thought #crimes

#state #surveillance

#criminal #activity

#hacking

#security #breaches

#scams

#spam

#mass #lies

#misinformation

#disinformation

#spying

#centralized #control

#algorithms

#ads

#ai #slop

#sensitive #media

#compromised #accounts

#political #domination

#geographic #restrictions

#doxing

#BigTech

It is the most important place to find #friends and talk to loved ones.

Never give up your rights for privacy, #free #speech and #right to live as you are and build a #legacy from that in turn.

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🕵️‍♂️📰 Trying to piece together what to believe can feel impossible, but we can still find reliable, trustworthy #answers as long as we know how to look for them.

Hank Green and Sage Magee explain the SIFT method, a four-step tool to help you investigate sources and trace claims back to their origins to find the whole #truth.

👉 Learn more: zurl.co/182Du

#disinformation #diy #howto #information #literacy #media #microplastics #misinformation #news #plastic #research #science #journalism #psychology #mentalhealth #propaganda #education #tksst #video

🕵️‍♂️📰 Trying to piece together what to believe can feel impossible, but we can still find reliable, trustworthy #answers as long as we know how to look for them.

Hank Green and Sage Magee explain the SIFT method, a four-step tool to help you investigate sources and trace claims back to their origins to find the whole #truth.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/evaluating-sou…

#disinformation #diy #howto #information #literacy #media #microplastics #misinformation #news #plastic #research #science #journalism #psychology #mentalhealth #propaganda #education #tksst #video

I wanted to track this down (no link in original post I can find)... and here it is.

Note original graphic was cropped, leaving out #WaPo and #FoxNews. Not sure why, maybe viewed on small screen? That would explain "swipe" mention.

Added: Also note that in the spirit of supporting the authors I'm not reproducing the graphic, but linking the entire article. The "auto website quote" feature of #Mastodon can't quite pick it up... I see only colored columns without text. If that's all you see... please click on the link and scroll down for the entire thing. My impressions for anyone who can't view it: death by #Terrorism is WAY over-represented (#NYTimes is the worst!), our old nemeses #HeartDisease & #Cancer (50% of deaths in the real world) are hardly covered. As Vonnegut would say "So it goes...". 🙄

👉 Reposting the full link because I think the information is important! 👈

#Misinformation #Disinformation Broken #MainstreamMedia #NYTimes

ourworldindata.org/does-the-ne…

🤔🕵️‍♂️ Carl Sagan developed a "Baloney Detection Kit" to help us navigate a world full of #misinformation and persuasive charlatans.

These 9 essential tools of skepticism will help empower you to verify #facts and recognize logical fallacies in everyday life.

👉 bigthink.com/starts-with-a-ban…

#science #education #media #literacy #learning

There is no such thing as ethical AI. There's no right way to do the wrong thing, don't compromise on the pollution of the information sphere and denigration of art and culture and proliferation of consciousness-impersonating political agents

#AISlop #GenAI #DeadInternet #Art #Misinformation

Party like it's #1984! #Fake #photo release by #US #government is completely #Orwellian.

#misinformation #disinformation #whitehouse #NekimaLevyArmstrong #minneapolis

latimes.com/politics/story/202…

I've moved instances so here's my new #introduction

I'm Assistant Professor in Computer Science and #HCI at #UCD working in technology for #BehaviorChange

I'm also interested in #darkpatterns in design and #misinformation on social media and messaging apps.

can you guys stop spreading #misinformation?! gunther #fehlinger IS NOT A REAL #NATO guy.

am i exclusively surrounded by idiots? how hard can it possibly be for you guys to look. shit. up. before. posting. it?!

#USPOL #greenland #canada #trump #ukaine #venezuela

#Twitter #censorship of #trans is even worse than I thought.

Img 1: I posted a link & screenshot of the latest #EnochBurke court judgment: x.com/2legged/status/199455878…

I posted the same link and screenshot in replies to two other posts.

Img 2: Promptly, I was warned of "inauthentic behavior", and told my posts may be hidden.

Img 3: everything I ever posted in 15 years has been hidden. See x.com/2legged

#Musk has seems to have zero tolerance of countering #antiTrans #misinformation

(URL replace addon enabled for X, YouTube, Instagram and some news sites.)

bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/document…

#Genai #ai is increasingly a source of #news and it is NOT accurate. #openai released a new browser where there is no place to type the URL and every query NECESSARILY goes through #chatgpt which is already being used by 100s of millions. The damn thing will probably produce fake (but very real-looking) videos on the fly as it makes up stuff!

#democracy #justice #humanrights #misinformation #disinformation

theargumentmag.com/p/you-have-…

In an era where the #complexity is growing, the last thing humanity may want to not lose is #READING and #WRITING which are the twin pillars of DEEP #THINKING (paraphrased from Cal Newport).

#ai #democracy #humanrights #justice #climatechange #genai #education #misinformation #disinformation

ft.com/content/7d6ed5de-d011-4…

More spread of #misinformation and #disinformation in #India on top of the existing crap dished out by social media (#Meta and #Google). The 1.4B population has long been reeling under #climatechange #unemployment #poverty and now this.

In step with 'Project 2025', which seeks to undermine and erase climate science, Trump is trying to shut down the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. He is doing this as part of an aggressive defunding of NOAA.

Data collected by this observatory since 1958 has been central to nearly every report ever published on our changing climate.

Our home planet may soon lose a canonical reference that it is warming.

edition.cnn.com/2025/07/01/cli…

(Edit: grammar fix)

#climate #misinformation

I had this one saved, I think from Tumblr. Thought it deserved a repost.

#meme #Wikipedia #misinformation #actuallyautistic #ChatGPT

Canadians using Twitter/X are being bombarded by misleading right-wing posts designed to boost Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and tarnish the reputation of Mark Carney.

The FT’s analysis finds a growing volume of that misinformation is coming not from Russia or China, but the United States.

ft.com/content/743c1dec-0c5c-4…

#tech #canada #cdnpoli #twitter #x #elonmusk #misinformation #cdnelxn #cdnelection

I'm not surprised if such things did happen. But I am not inclined to believe this (or any) particular narrative in the absence of proof.

Let's avoid the messy thinking the "others" engage in -- it is an iterative loop from which we must break free!

#criticalthinking #socialmedia #misinformation

Sorry to hear of Zuckerberg's passing. They say 'never speak ill of the dead' but his cosying up to Trump was unforgiveable not to mention his complicity in the spread of harmful disinformation.

#Zuckerberg #Meta #Trump #Facebook #Altright #misinformation #USpolitics

Es wird wohl Zeit für den #MetaExit. 😞

Letzte Woche:

mastodon.online/@tinoeberl/113…

Diese Woche:
"Wir werden [...] die freie Meinungsäußerung auf unseren Plattformen wiederherstellen", sagte #Zuckerberg.

Meta stellt den #Faktencheck in den #USA ein: Künftig sollen Nutzer selbst Inhalte kommentieren und bewerten – ähnlich wie bei den Community Notes von X.

zeit.de/digital/2025-01/meta-f…

#Desinformation #Misinformation #Fakenews #Migration #SocialMedia