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Slightly off topic, however, I always wonder if there is a team of spooks out there producing propaganda in the comments for people on hacker news.
by andy_ppp 8y ago
Slightly off topic, however, I always wonder if there is a team of spooks out there producing propaganda in the comments for people on hacker news.
- fit2rule 8y agoI'm fairly confident there are. Social media manipulation is a key element of the spook brigades' agenda. They're there to influence what people think, after all.
- TheOtherHobbes 8y agoVery obviously so on mainstream social media. I'm on some tiny, tiny progressive forums and we regularly see pretenders - posters who make the right noises in a "I don't really understand this, so I'll do my own parody version" way - and spoilers who post random and/or obviously divisive crap from strange IPs which disappear as soon damage is done. And not just spooks. I mentioned glyphosphate in a FB post once, and I was immediately jumped on by a couple of aggressive posters who denied it caused cancer, said there was no scientific evidence it caused cancer, and so on - which was an epic overreaction and hilariously disturbing, because Roundup and cancer were some way from the main topic.
- pdkl95 8y agohttps://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/ https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/
- emayljames 8y agoThank you. An atmosphere has been created, that trys to make anybody that puts information about the secret services psyops out there an alex jones conspiracy theorist. Western secret services have morphed into the East German Stazi.
- mkj 8y agoI guess there would be. Is there anything forum mods could do to repel it?
- ionised 8y agoBased on what we learned from the Snowden docs I would be very surprised if HN didn't have NSA/GCHQ shills poisoning conversation.