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It’s larger than military. This is how our democracy works. The government seeds ideas in PR articles to media and then evaluates if there is enough public supp
by liontwist 2y ago
It’s larger than military. This is how our democracy works. The government seeds ideas in PR articles to media and then evaluates if there is enough public support to do it.
The most egregious example I remember is the “Russians are putting bounties on Americans in the Middle East” article that was well promoted by prominent individuals on this site, and then turned out to be fake.
- adolph 2y ago> Remember the “Russians are putting bounties on Americans in the Middle East” article that was well promoted by prominent individuals on this site, and then turned out to be fake? I don't recall that being promoted on this site and in review [0] the few times it was claimed, there was solid pushback. Maybe you have different examples? 0. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=american%20bounties&sort=byDate&type=all https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
- liontwist 2y agoPaul was personally promoting it on twitter and suggesting war (as were other well connected figures).
- toast0 2y agoI read posted (by prominent individuals) on this site because if we were talking about posted [elsewhere] by (prominent individuals on this site), it doesn't seem relevant to a discussion that's happening on this site.
- liontwist 2y agoI am not suggesting HN is a target for the US government, but that prominent people are targets of consensus forming efforts.
- 4gotunameagain 2y agoI would be incredibly surprised if HN is NOT a target for the US government, given not only the power of people frequenting it but also the deep link between silicon valley and the military industrial "defence" complex.
- adolph 2y agoI don't doubt you and in taking the steps to reproduce your finding 'No results for "from:paulg bounty".' Maybe was deleted?
- liontwist 2y agoTwitter search “Russia”