The American “intelligence community” wants to control the narratives on federated social media, as they already do on corporate social media.
- Atlantic Council: Collective Security in a Federated World
- Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund: Fediverse Governance Successes & Gaps
The whole “mis-, dis-, and mal-information” discourse was/is a psyop for top-down propaganda control. The Dem-aligned media did a bang-up job of discrediting Matt Taibbi such that his continued investigatory work into this intentionally opaque system is being ignored.
Hexbear is a Lemmy instance. As far as platforms, it's pretty much Lemmy and kbin to my knowledge.