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Nah, that's amateur hour. They're easy to disrupt because if you throw out a piece of fake or mostly fake information that accedes to some viewpoint they hold

Nah, that's amateur hour. They're easy to disrupt because if you throw out a piece of fake or mostly fake information that accedes to some viewpoint they hold holy they'll throw themselves into a rabid fury without much thought. For an example just look at the 0-60 leg humping of lyft they did last week because of that selectively true uber story. All that despite Icahn and Thiel each having 9 (?) figures invested in lyft. L to the ol.

Benjamin_Dobell 10y ago
Trolling? :P
scrollaway 10y ago
This is true for just about any superficial community, which reddit is full of. Clickbait driven logic.
breatheoften 10y ago
It is absolutely a biased perspective to pretend that left leaning communities are more likely to be "rabidly supportive" of fake news that conforms to their worldview than right leaning communities. Right leaning community discourse is almost entirely oblique references to trigger topics and meme images that use simplistic analogies to pattern match against the audiences worldview.
CM30 10y ago
Or for another example, look at this story and how the folks against GamerGate responded to it: https://medium.com/@mombot/zachattack-how-i-tricked-anti-harassment-advocates-into-doxing-me-4d9f055e2738#.gsld186qa https://medium.com/@mombot/zachattack-how-i-tricked-anti-har... All it took was a bit of fake evidence and a story these people wanted to believe (that someone they disliked 'wasn't a minority'), and suddenly you had a whole bunch of people looking like idiots and making fools of themselves. So easy to then ramp this up to focus on someone in the activist's/extremists' own community and hey, the whole group is now up in flames over a fabricated story.
- breatheoften 10y ago
  I'm not familiar with GamerGate. Can you explain this story? From reading the article I make some inferences and try to explain what I understood -- I explain below just to illustrate what I understand coming from a place of zero information on the topic -- please clarify and correct my understanding as presented. GamerGate is a movement of some kind (I actually have no idea what they support) that began deploying an attack called 'doxing' (which I understand involves publicly disclosing the identity behind social media personas in order that real life attacks/intimidation can be conducted against the actual humans) against people they are against. Anti-GamerGate is a movement with the agenda to 'dox the GamerGate doxxers'. The above article claims to be an account of how two individuals worked together to convince anti-GamerGaters to dox a fake identity and in the process uncovered the identity of the anti-GamerGaters and proceeded to 'dox' them with that information. What I'm failing to undestand is how exactly this proves anything about left-leaning groups in general? Is it your position that coordinated deployment of fake information can only be used against communities with certain philosophical properties commonly identified as 'liberal'? In your opinion what kind of information would be required to prove this perspective? Do you have evidence to support the idea that communities with a different philosophical leaning would not succumb to such a coordinated mis-information campaign?

Benjamin_Dobell 10y ago

Trolling? :P

scrollaway 10y ago

This is true for just about any superficial community, which reddit is full of. Clickbait driven logic.

breatheoften 10y ago

It is absolutely a biased perspective to pretend that left leaning communities are more likely to be "rabidly supportive" of fake news that conforms to their worldview than right leaning communities. Right leaning community discourse is almost entirely oblique references to trigger topics and meme images that use simplistic analogies to pattern match against the audiences worldview.

CM30 10y ago

Or for another example, look at this story and how the folks against GamerGate responded to it: https://medium.com/@mombot/zachattack-how-i-tricked-anti-harassment-advocates-into-doxing-me-4d9f055e2738#.gsld186qa https://medium.com/@mombot/zachattack-how-i-tricked-anti-har... All it took was a bit of fake evidence and a story these people wanted to believe (that someone they disliked 'wasn't a minority'), and suddenly you had a whole bunch of people looking like idiots and making fools of themselves. So easy to then ramp this up to focus on someone in the activist's/extremists' own community and hey, the whole group is now up in flames over a fabricated story.

breatheoften 10y ago
I'm not familiar with GamerGate. Can you explain this story? From reading the article I make some inferences and try to explain what I understood -- I explain below just to illustrate what I understand coming from a place of zero information on the topic -- please clarify and correct my understanding as presented. GamerGate is a movement of some kind (I actually have no idea what they support) that began deploying an attack called 'doxing' (which I understand involves publicly disclosing the identity behind social media personas in order that real life attacks/intimidation can be conducted against the actual humans) against people they are against. Anti-GamerGate is a movement with the agenda to 'dox the GamerGate doxxers'. The above article claims to be an account of how two individuals worked together to convince anti-GamerGaters to dox a fake identity and in the process uncovered the identity of the anti-GamerGaters and proceeded to 'dox' them with that information. What I'm failing to undestand is how exactly this proves anything about left-leaning groups in general? Is it your position that coordinated deployment of fake information can only be used against communities with certain philosophical properties commonly identified as 'liberal'? In your opinion what kind of information would be required to prove this perspective? Do you have evidence to support the idea that communities with a different philosophical leaning would not succumb to such a coordinated mis-information campaign?