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Moar conspirology! It used to be Trump in cahoots with GRU. Now it's <s>reptiloids</s> Assange. Since when leaking the evidence of shady dealings is something
by averros 7y ago
Moar conspirology! It used to be Trump in cahoots with GRU. Now it's <s>reptiloids</s> Assange.
Since when leaking the evidence of shady dealings is something immoral? Really, why outrage at Assange who is merely a messenger rather than at people whose deeds were so embarrassing so the leak is widely seen as damaging?
How about simply not doing stuff which will cost you an election if made known to general public? Nah, too hard.
- viraptor 7y agoIt's not black and white as you present. Media has limited bandwidth, people have limited attention span, voters have limited things they can care about deeply, etc. The absolute part doesn't change - bad actions are bad. But you can definitely divert attention from some things to others by feeding the right facts at the right time. So if you publish something with a specific intention/framing then it can definitely be held against you, irrelevant of the content itself.