Anonymous hacker faces 16 years in prison, while Steubenville rapists walk free

Re:Anonymous hacker faces 16 years in prison, while Steubenv... by katedye on Friday September 09, 2016 @01:28AM (#12459817)

I didn't know that, but their current homepage, the tone of a few articles, and Wikipedia[1] seems to confirm that news—thank you!

However, I also googled "steubenville hacker"[2] and found a number of other articles confirmed this story. Most were published in the last 10 hours so I'm confident that major publications aren't avoiding this story because it's false, but rather, they haven't picked it up yet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_(TV_network) [2] https://www.google.ca/search?q=steubenville+hacker#q=steuben...

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Re:Anonymous hacker faces 16 years in prison, while Steubenv... by kombucha2 on Friday September 09, 2016 @02:01AM (#12459919)

These[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] are a perfect example of why people don't trust RT. It's not that they always post such a blatant lies or falsehoods but the brand as a whole is tainted. It's operated as more of disinformation campaign/operation masquerading as alternative news. And this is just RT, plenty of other Russian outlets are worse.[6] If I find something interesting on RT I usually corroborate it elsewhere and then use that source. ZH (ZeroHedge) is another example of this. They come up in my Play Newsstand feed(which I cannot change...thanks Google) as news but I would never think of RT or ZH as trustworthy, I give them a gossip-rag level of trust. Though I would say there are trust issues with a lot of MSM outlets, RT really takes the cake and they aren't nearly as crazy as they used to be, they've learned to be far more nuanced.

[1] https://www.rt.com/news/356697-man-climbs-ecuadorian-embassy...

[2] https://www.rt.com/news/158212-academi-blackwater-ukraine-mi...

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20140704230031/http://rt.com/new...

[4] https://www.buzzfeed.com/katherinemiller/insane-moments-from...

[5] http://www.interpretermag.com/rt-sends-in-the-clowns/

[6] https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-examples-of-contemporary...

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Re:Anonymous hacker faces 16 years in prison, while Steubenv... by hackuser on Friday September 09, 2016 @02:15AM (#12459972)

> It's not that they always post such a blatant lies or falsehoods but the brand as a whole is tainted. It's operated as more of disinformation campaign/operation

To be clear, that is exactly how professional propaganda operates. Their goal is to deceive people; blatant lies obviously won't accomplish that, just like blatant phishing attacks will fail. If you can tell it's propaganda (without knowing otherwise about the source), it's not very well done.

AFAICT, humans greatly overestimate their ability to know propaganda when they see it. We all think that we can't be fooled so easily, and that's exactly what makes us vulnerable. We're naturally persuaded by things that don't correlate with truth - you can see that in the accomplishments of endless false political leaders, and their propagandists, throughout history.

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