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you have to say it is a superb result. If you were natsec and you wanted to influence the thoughts and behaviours of people in foreign countries, what better wa
by hunglee2 4y ago
you have to say it is a superb result. If you were natsec and you wanted to influence the thoughts and behaviours of people in foreign countries, what better way to do so than to produce a tool which those people would use as default to discover 'the truth'. I hope the CIA folks who decided to invest in early Google got just rewards, not just in terms of return to investment, but also national recognition in service to the country
- ShivShankaran 4y agoGoogle is passe now. It's all reddit. Reddit even selected people from NATO for it's content role. Their algorithm automatically pushes to front page anything that the US would like to focus on.
- hunglee2 4y agoyes - TikTok too, amazingly. I think basically those platforms stay on the good side of USGov, so long as they agree to hire a load of natsec operatives into product or oversight positions. That way you have plausible deniability of the existence of a political commissariat in ostensibly private sector organisations. Again, it is laudable - this is strategic planning of the highest order, commendations all round