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These campaigns do exist, so the question is "Where are the bots?" Look to the people with opinions and phrasing that parallel the government, like happened wit
by dave_sullivan 9y ago
These campaigns do exist, so the question is "Where are the bots?" Look to the people with opinions and phrasing that parallel the government, like happened with Trump/Russia/Wikileaks coordination. They also pepper the account with many unrelated comments. They're usually impossible to verify as a person. And they don't make arguments, they make deflections. Aim of propaganda today is to muddy the conversation, cast doubt, prevent consensus. So look for those patterns.
- jacquesm 9y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14753932 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14753932
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- dave_sullivan 9y agoFair enough, that is the trouble with witch hunts...
- CPLX 9y agoOut of curiosity, I scrolled through a dozen pages or so of this posters comment history and your assessment of him seems highly unsupported. He's self-described as a person of Chinese descent living in the west since birth (Canada I believe) and is a developer who comments on developer type discussions. In other words, a typical HN contributor. You should be aware that governments, even ones you disagree with, are composed of actual people, and that it's quite possible for people to have a consistent worldview that closely tracks a government's perceived worldview without actually being agents of that government.
- dave_sullivan 9y agoYeah, you might be right. I re-read all his comments. Consistent enough. Probably not a bot, just a false equivalency expert. I am being overly paranoid.