Re:CIA malware and hacking tools
by ptaipale on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @01:09AM
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>This whole narrative of Wikileaks not being neutral is a very weird story, because they've never published anything that wasn't verified to be true.
Note that "being neutral" is not at all the same as "publishing only things that are verified to be true".
What you choose to publish still has a lot of impact on whether you are neutral or not. Even some of the worst propaganda sites publish true things. The propaganda is in which part of the truth they publish and which not.
In Russian, the truth is "Pravda" and you know what it was. It was propaganda. Mostly it was quite true, just with a very specific view on truth.
Note that "being neutral" is not at all the same as "publishing only things that are verified to be true".
What you choose to publish still has a lot of impact on whether you are neutral or not. Even some of the worst propaganda sites publish true things. The propaganda is in which part of the truth they publish and which not.
In Russian, the truth is "Pravda" and you know what it was. It was propaganda. Mostly it was quite true, just with a very specific view on truth.