How Propagandists Abuse the Internet and Manipulate the Public [pdf]

Re:How Propagandists Abuse the Internet and Manipulate the P... by nl on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @05:53PM (#14556408)

Of course there are plenty of left wing disinformation actors. It's fairly well accepted that the huge 'Bernie Bros' online movement was amplified in the same way the Trump movement was.

I don't blame the article for not including it because left wing disinformation has been mostly ineffective and uninteresting though.

The most interesting exceptions are the AntiVaxxer movement (sometimes left associated) and the Caexit groups, which is a story worth looking at.

Edit: it does include an example of left wing fake news: the false accusation of police burning a tent. It's actually pretty short on right wing examples (although I didn't read all the Chinese cases, so some of them maybe).

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Re:How Propagandists Abuse the Internet and Manipulate the P... by superobserver on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @09:01PM (#14557185)

> I don't blame the article for not including it because left wing disinformation has been mostly ineffective and uninteresting though.

So ineffective that a Bernie Bro shot a few congressmen? Give me a break.

The rest of your commentary is similarly dismissive in a way that suggests an underlying bias unworthy of further comment.

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Re:How Propagandists Abuse the Internet and Manipulate the P... by nl on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @11:55PM (#14557840)

So ineffective that a Bernie Bro shot a few congressmen? Give me a break.

When I wrote that I didn't know that connection. It clearly got a lot more interesting.

The rest of your commentary is similarly dismissive in a way that suggests an underlying bias unworthy of further comment.

No, it's arguing that you are seeing bias where there isn't any.

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