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That's not giving the Russia situation the nuance it deserves. The controversy is about the ability for motivated & funded actors to manufacture consent by expl
by pfraze 6y ago
That's not giving the Russia situation the nuance it deserves. The controversy is about the ability for motivated & funded actors to manufacture consent by exploiting weaknesses in the design of social media. That's a credible weakness in the design. The proposed solutions do merit criticism, because nobody has offered anything better than platform censorship, which destroys the authenticity of free speech.
- raxxorrax 6y agoIt doesn't deserve much nuance though. We had years of articles describing election interference and lying to people through that whole time. I guess you could claim that Putin is even worse and just kills his opposition, but that doesn't justify the blatant lies. Be reminded that it was also used as a justification to defame whistle blowers as Russian assets.
- pfraze 6y agoRussian interference covers at least 4 behaviors: manufactured consent online, hacking the dnc/rnc, hacking voting equipment, and the compromise of the president. All of those are serious, all of them are credible, and none of them can be passed off as “lies.”