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Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. If you read the article you’ll see that they started out trying to catalog every falsehood on every station, and soon go
by db48x 3y ago
Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. If you read the article you’ll see that they started out trying to catalog every falsehood on every station, and soon got overwhelmed. To break it into smaller parts, they decided to start with one specific set of lies (those resulting from the Hamilton 68 project) on just one channel. I’ve no doubt that we’ll get more as time goes on.
In the mean time, keyword searches on the Internet Archive are also instructive. For example, if you want to look at what other networks were saying on this topic then y ou can go to <https://archive.org/details/tv?q=%22russian%20bots%22 https://archive.org/details/tv?q=%22russian%20bots%22>.
Also, don’t lose sight of the fact that that these lies had a purpose: to vilify and discredit one unpopular person, and by extension a whole political party. Because the Hamilton 68 project was tracking ordinary Twitter users who just by chance happened to mostly belong to one political party (it wasn’t tracking bots at all; everyone at Twitter knew this the whole time, but they declined to tell the truth because it would help that unpopular politician), it allowed the media to discredit any popular topic of conversation within that party as merely “Russian propaganda”.