From that article:
While difficult to counter, the German Marshall Fund, RAND, and military strategists have described techniques to respond to the firehose of falsehood, generally involving preempting it with good information, strategically reducing or removing misinformation, and teaching digital literacy.
With something like Lemmy, I think that means:
- Make high quality posts with good information
- Reporting misinformation
- If mods don't remove the misinformation, escalate to an admin
- If the admin doesn't remove misinformation, then discuss defederation
What I'm seeing here is:
- Instance says MAGA, and MAGA = bad
- Posts on that instance are largely conservative, and conservative = bad
- We should defederate
That's not the right process. Maybe we should defederate, IDK, but I do know we need evidence of bad action before jumping to defederation, and nothing in this post or the linked posts have any evidence.