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ask yourself why this particular variety of disinformation written to "go viral" on social media and in search results is different from any other. ask yourself
by adamrezich 5y ago
ask yourself why this particular variety of disinformation written to "go viral" on social media and in search results is different from any other. ask yourself whether your own state's government ever engages in similar activity, or whether this is something that only this specific state government in question does. ask yourself why other people making decisions about what kinds of propaganda you do and don't see is good for you and ultimately society as a whole. ask yourself why information flow on the Internet is becoming increasingly restricted and censored, and how we got to the point where Internet users seem to actively demand such restrictions and censorship, when it most certainly wasn't this way in the past.
- giaour 5y agoDid DDG say they're upranking "good" propaganda and downranking "bad" propaganda? What I understood from the tweets is that DDG is downranking propaganda. Russia happens to produce a lot of it, so they'd be more impacted.
- pessimizer 5y agoNo, what they said is that they're downranking "sites associated with Russian disinformation", not "propaganda." If what you understood is different than that, it's different that what the tweet directly says.
- giaour 5y agoSource reputation is an important heuristic for determining whether a given piece is content is likely to be spam. If a web property is demonstrated to be routinely publishing falsehoods to sway public opinion, you don't think that should factor into a site's reputation score?
- adamrezich 5y agowhat is and is not propaganda is subjective. something your state government tells you that you take for granted to be true may in fact be propaganda. but in the absence of a Universal Propaganda Detection Algorithm, whether or not something is propaganda is up to personal interpretation.
- giaour 5y agoWe're arguing the same point, I think. The GP was arguing against a straw man that only one kind of spam should be downranked.
- _-david-_ 5y agoWhen you downgrade one site another site is upranked. If you have a basic result 1. Good 2. Bad 3. Good And downrank the propaganda, the #3 result will now be #2. This is up ranking the good by default.