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> Russians didn't discover magic words that they use to hypnotise people and make them vote for pro-Russia candidate Well, someone else discovered not the magi
by GeoAtreides 2y ago
> Russians didn't discover magic words that they use to hypnotise people and make them vote for pro-Russia candidate
Well, someone else discovered not the magic words but the magic timing of when to tell them and how to surround people with the right words: i.e. the social media algorithms.
- newspaper1 2y agoDon't shoot the messenger. The actual problems being pointed out are the root cause.
- rbanffy 2y agoPeople were unhappy before and nothing like this happened because of it. International interference was always very difficult.
- newspaper1 2y agoMore transparency is a good thing, even if that comes from "international interference". The problems exist, try to hide them at your own political risk.
- rbanffy 2y agoThe point is foreign election interference is no longer difficult, dangerous, or expensive, and is incredibly effective.
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- newspaper1 2y agoIt's not "dangerous" to expose the truth, even selectively. More information is better, especially when it pertains to things our government is keeping from us.
- rbanffy 2y ago> More information is better, Not always, as cherry picked information is, in essence, a lie: it misrepresents reality by showing a narrow sliver of it that supports an argument that's not supported by the full set of observations.