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The whole comment thread is fascinating, and perhaps the best evidence that this entire movement was astroturfed. I thought it was interesting the ease at which
by enraged_camel 7y ago
The whole comment thread is fascinating, and perhaps the best evidence that this entire movement was astroturfed. I thought it was interesting the ease at which this could be detected.
- SturgeonsLaw 7y agoWell, copying and pasting descriptions across Facebook pages, registering all the domains at the same time with the same provider and same naming scheme, and missing WHOIS privacy are all OPSEC fails. It wouldn't have taken much effort to cover their tracks a little better. On a similar note, there is an effort underway to identify a large cluster of fake news websites set up in the same cookie-cutter manner: https://www.reddit.com/r/MassMove/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MassMove/ https://github.com/MassMove/AttackVectors https://github.com/MassMove/AttackVectors
- wmeredith 7y agoOPSEC needs are minimal with the people they’re targeting.
- anthony_doan 7y agoIt's scary to me that our country is being manipulated. Covid19 does not need to be politicalize. We're in troubled times I don't believe we need people going against experts (science/doctors/etc...).
- heyitsguay 7y agoIt doesn't need to be, but if you have your own interests in mind (economic, anti-US, others?), then why not? Since the rise of mass social media we've learned it's pretty easy to mindfuck a bunch of rubes, and if you get caught, the rubes will double down because nobody's ego will ever take the hit of realizing they're the rube.
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- Gibbon1 7y ago> It's scary to me that our country is being manipulated. That's because the political system is very dysfunctional and national political leaders are no longer used to coherent action.
- jgalt212 7y agotrue, but there is the possibility of making the correct decision for the wrong reason.