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Quite an editorialized title. > experts say evades the guardrails put in place by social media companies to limit online disinformation In none of the article

• dragontamer 6y ago
  The articles are absolutely saying they are spreading disinformation. > The messages — some of them false and some simply partisan — were parceled out in precise increments as directed by the effort’s leaders, according to the people with knowledge of the highly coordinated activity, most of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to protect the privacy of minors carrying out the work.
• millzlane 6y ago
  In the WP article the first line states "One tweet claimed coronavirus numbers were intentionally inflated, adding, “It’s hard to know what to believe.” Another warned, “Don’t trust Dr. Fauci.”" I'd say with strong confidence that this would classify as disinformation. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/turning-point-teens-disinformation-trump/2020/09/15/c84091ae-f20a-11ea-b796-2dd09962649c_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/turning-point-teens-...
  • sokoloff 6y ago
    I do find some of the methods to categorize COVID deaths and some of the early fear-mongering quite hard to believe. This could easily fall into the "it's hard to know what to believe" summarization. Side note: I'm not being paid to spread misinformation and I probably didn't create a news.yc account 12 years ago and post fairly consistently while patiently lying in wait to sprinkle a little bit of COVID misinformation in this thread.