terryd

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   by terryd 8y ago

   > ...the group's¹ objective wasn't to deceive voters... "The report does not say whether the project purchased the Russian bot Twitter accounts that suddenly began to follow Mr. Moore. But it takes credit for “radicalizing
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   by terryd 8y ago

   First of all, the story has actually changed a couple of times. So if you really want to understand the timeline - you are going to need to refer to archives of those articles. Second, the "small experiment" had a budget of at l
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   by terryd 8y ago

   Renee DiResta: Mozilla Fellow, Director of Research at New Knowledge https://www.mozillapulse.org/profile/410 New Knowledge is the organization that setup a fake Russian botnet, and then tried to push a narrative about
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   by terryd 8y ago

   Even after you have fallen victim to the very thing you are arguing isn't a problem - you still don't see it as a problem? It is a very big problem that these articles are being destructively modified. They are whipping up peopl
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   by terryd 8y ago

   > I find the bias, when it exists, is in the presentation, not the facts themselves. You mean something like a lie by omission? That is pretty easily solved with some form of source control and public pull requests. An equivalent to gi
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   by terryd 8y ago

   > Others, like a cycle of revenge attacks, are not, at least not yet. This is why censorship is so dangerous. I immediately thought of 3 attacks following NZ that could be interpreted as reprisals. I was completely unsurprised to see t