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by Jeff_Brown
2395 days ago
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Those grassroots lie-factories could be more dangerous than state-directed ones. The state has a single message to push. A market, by contrast, will try every damn thing it can think of, and some of it will work. I don't remember where I read it, but I believe the 2016 Russian disinformation campaign took advantage of a number of conspiracy theories that arose "in the wild". |
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Which messages? Which groups were targeted? How many people did it hit?
It was targeted to increase distrust? On which platform?
What historically was regarded as propaganda could very well be dissected afterwards. I don't really see that here or any arguments that this influence cannot be traced.
I would be very surprised if Russia didn't try to boost their favorite candidate as a geopolitical rival, but to imply relevant Russian interference is an example of distorting the truth in my opinion. And not a trivial one.
Furthermore you are also implying that everyone having a somewhat dissenting opinion about unrelated issues to being manipulated. Some might take issue with that.