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I'm not sure what's the point of arguing semantics, call them "people with opinions similar to that of the russian state TV channels". My usage of the word was
by asats 5y ago
I'm not sure what's the point of arguing semantics, call them "people with opinions similar to that of the russian state TV channels". My usage of the word was more along the lines of "historically, propaganda has been a neutral descriptive term of any material that promotes certain opinions or ideologies".
- peakaboo 5y agoThe hacker news audience doesn't like the truth sometimes.
- maratc 5y agoYou keep moving the goals. Did you decide their opinions are “similar to that of the Russian state tv channels”? When tagging some channels, but not others, together as "propagandists"/"people with similar views"/"Group A"/whatever, was that tagging your "original research", or was it based on some objective criteria?
- asats 5y agoThe main criteria was their audience similarity on youtube (youtube recommendations), as I told you in the first reply. I took the obvious pro-Kremlin channels and then pulled all of their top recommendations until I stopped finding new channels. Almost all of the top recommended channels were the ones you see in the graph, most of what I removed were various music/movies/etc channels. There's a similar network of obvious pro-Ukrainian propaganda out there on youtube as well, and a large anti-Kremlin russian opposition network, they are all fuzzy but you can still see the clusters as similar channels have similar audiences and get cross-recommended by youtube.