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you literally just scrolled past several comments with evidence to make this reply. not to mention how naive one's priors must be to think no western actors eng
by bllguo 3y ago
you literally just scrolled past several comments with evidence to make this reply. not to mention how naive one's priors must be to think no western actors engage in these activities, given everything else we know about the US espionage apparatus and foreign propaganda efforts
- tormeh 3y agoIf you employ hundreds of forum trolls at minimum wage it tends to get out eventually. Of course the US does psyops. It’s the trolling part that’s the question.
- chrysler 3y agoThis cynical take ignores that in free societies, such efforts are far less effective than in closed societies with no free media and no tradition of civic participation and civil disobedience. COVID showed that very well.
- mistermann 3y agoWatch out for correlation versus causation though.
- bjourne 3y agoYou put words in my mouth by changing the quantifier from "western governments" to "no western actors". And yes we do know a lot about how the US conducts espionage, yet we don't have evidence of state-backed troll armies.