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Is there an appreciable difference between paid channels for disinformation and non-paid? Just yesterday on this forum it was discussed how 19 of the 20 largest

Is there an appreciable difference between paid channels for disinformation and non-paid? Just yesterday on this forum it was discussed how 19 of the 20 largest Christian pages were Russian troll farms [0]. You don't have to be paying Facebook to craft a public narrative. Admittedly, it does take some capital investment creating the content farm: a small army of modestly paid office workers abroad. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28691585 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28691585

boomboomsubban 5y ago
>...were Russian troll farms From that article >These groups, based largely in Kosovo and Macedonia
- dTal 5y ago
  Sure, the article doesn't say who is funding them, and they aren't "based in" Russia. But looking at the big picture, is the war-torn semi-recognized developing eastern European country of Kosovo really investing its limited resources into funding large-scale efforts to destabilize Western culture and discourse? To what purpose? Isn't it much more plausible that there's a superpower involved somewhere? Isn't it extremely likely to be the superpower we know already does this? Sometimes big true-true different from small true-true.
  - boomboomsubban 5y ago
    >To what purpose? Presumably to make money somehow. Seems far more likely than your vast conspiracy of attempts to destabilize Western Christianity through shitposting.
  - h2odragon 5y ago
    > Sometimes big true-true different from small true-true. More often, people who lie to you about the small things are also lying to you about the big things. One might even nurse a prejudice against accepting the word of sources who lie consistently, casually and without need, suspecting that "true" actually means something different to them. Taking the more charitable interpretation.

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Is there an appreciable difference between paid channels for disinformation and non-paid? Just yesterday on this forum it was discussed how 19 of the 20 largest

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boomboomsubban 5y ago
>...were Russian troll farms From that article >These groups, based largely in Kosovo and Macedonia
- dTal 5y ago
  Sure, the article doesn't say who is funding them, and they aren't "based in" Russia. But looking at the big picture, is the war-torn semi-recognized developing eastern European country of Kosovo really investing its limited resources into funding large-scale efforts to destabilize Western culture and discourse? To what purpose? Isn't it much more plausible that there's a superpower involved somewhere? Isn't it extremely likely to be the superpower we know already does this? Sometimes big true-true different from small true-true.
  - boomboomsubban 5y ago
    >To what purpose? Presumably to make money somehow. Seems far more likely than your vast conspiracy of attempts to destabilize Western Christianity through shitposting.
  - h2odragon 5y ago
    > Sometimes big true-true different from small true-true. More often, people who lie to you about the small things are also lying to you about the big things. One might even nurse a prejudice against accepting the word of sources who lie consistently, casually and without need, suspecting that "true" actually means something different to them. Taking the more charitable interpretation.