The amount of disinformation, deep fakes, and other misdirection I hear about from friends and relatives that they get from traditional social media is insane.

They have to tell me about it because I am almost always completely unaware, even though I am “on the Internet” just as much if not more than them.

This is a deep advantage of using Mastodon/the Fediverse right now. And it is not because fake stuff doesn’t exist here.

It is just not automatically sent to me by every owner, bot, and user. And if it is, it is generally swatted down hard.

#fediverse #mastodon #realInformation

@chris at this point is appears commercial social media is literally financially dependent on the worst forms of scam...

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortune-deluge-fraudulent-ads-documents-show-2025-11-06/

@mapto @chris I wrote Polish article about it based on these revelations some time ago. And reading about this (Meta's awareness and their deliberate lack of real action) literally made me feel sick :/

@madargon @chris the blind greed might explain it for some of the top management. But what about all others involved? How do they sleep at night?

But then I ask myself similar questions about the MAGA apparatchiks...