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We're ignoring the fact that there is an active malicious campaign by elements fueled by the Russian government in order to artificially inflate the visibility

We're ignoring the fact that there is an active malicious campaign by elements fueled by the Russian government in order to artificially inflate the visibility of news articles that the Russian government wants people to see. Deranking these articles in response is totally justifiable.

knowThySelfx 9y ago
How did they artificially inflate visibility?
averagewall 9y ago
Replace "Russian government" with the name of any news organization and your claim is (still) true. So your conclusion is based on the presupposition that the Russian government has such incredibly bad things to say that all the world's naive people need to be protected from it. Really? Are they spreading a new global communism ideal or something?
- aalleavitch 9y ago
  It's worse than that. https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html
  - hasenj 9y ago
    And who says that Rand is not fake news?
    - sctb 9y ago
      We've already asked you repeatedly to start following the guidelines, so we've banned the account. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
puranjay 9y ago
Replace "Russian government" with "French government" or "German government". Would you still support this move so strongly? We've entered some strange twilight zone where countries pushing their interests is somehow considered "wrong".
- mijamo 9y ago
  Well actually it has been so for a long time. And this is a good thing. There is only one reason why a country pays money to push news in anothet country. French television has been bannef in many African countries several times for the same reason. And many countries prevent their media from being bought by foreign agents.
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