MBFC's Weekly Media Literacy Quiz Covering the Week of Mar 9th - Mar 15th

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MBFC's Weekly Media Literacy Quiz Covering the Week of Mar 9th - Mar 15th

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Fediverse vs Disinformation@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 19 days ago

Welcome to our weekly media literacy quiz. This quiz will test your knowledge of the past week's events with a focus on facts, misinformation, bias, and

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Pointing out, debunking, and spreading awareness about state- and company-sponsored astroturfing on Lemmy and elsewhere. This includes social media manipulation, propaganda, and disinformation campaigns, among others.

Propaganda and disinformation are a big problem on the internet, and the Fediverse is no exception.

What’s the difference between misinformation and disinformation? The inadvertent spread of false information is misinformation. Disinformation is the intentional spread of falsehoods.

By equipping yourself with knowledge of current disinformation campaigns by state actors, corporations and their cheerleaders, you will be better able to identify, report and (hopefully) remove content matching known disinformation campaigns.

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