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Well, the internet is also under attack from various actors seeing to distort the narrative for their own means. Tons of planted comments and highly questionabl
by losteric 9y ago
Well, the internet is also under attack from various actors seeing to distort the narrative for their own means. Tons of planted comments and highly questionable "news" websites".
Traditional media had similar problems, but to a much lesser extend... and the biases/propaganda were much more obvious.
- arca_vorago 9y agoIndeed, the sockpuppetry really hit hard around 2010/2011, and I've yet to see a website handle it very well. Honestly HN is one of the last places I take the actual time to comment on because of it. There are some methods that slashdot uses that I think could also be helpful, but there is no easy fix. Like you said though, one interesting side-effect is that for the astute reader you can discern what the talking points of the day/week/month are by paying attention to the narrative.