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by meiraleal 770 days ago
> Even worse, a lot of it is intentional and adversarial - if you wanted to destroy a country's economy, it would be an extremely cost effective strategy to simply flood the country's internet with doomer posts about their economy, about their country, get the citizens fear riddled and have them lose faith in their country. Never have to fire a single bullet.

That's exactly what happened in Brazil 10 years ago and we are just now starting to recover