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Keep in mind that it is not always the government(s) using strategies like this. Political groups (left and right alike) do know about it, and use it, as well a
by maze-le 11y ago
Keep in mind that it is not always the government(s) using strategies like this. Political groups (left and right alike) do know about it, and use it, as well as the occasional 'troll for the lulz'. And there is the whole issue of corporate wikipedia-editing networks, if they exist, you can reasonably assume some shadowy businesses also do operations like that.
- cryoshon 11y agoI think that corporate PR constitutes a larger (maybe even the largest) source of deceit/propaganda like in the OP. It's no secret that on reddit there are a large corpus of Monsanto shills (people who sit around and respond to Monsanto-related topics to defuse critcicism).
- wooter 11y agoexcept they presumably pay for their own PR and don't have a monopoly of force, unlike the Gov.