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Re:Twitter’s multi-million dollar US election pitch to RT by emodendroket on Friday October 27, 2017 @10:49AM (#15568885)
What is someone supposed to say to this, really? Yes, RT has much more credibility in the US and Europe than Pravda, but that is probably because, while hewing to an alternate viewpoint, they're doing actual reporting, and not just operating as a mindless propaganda outlet.
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Re:Twitter’s multi-million dollar US election pitch to RT by usrusr on Friday October 27, 2017 @11:53AM (#15569579)
Are you saying that being a mindless propaganda outlet was not the reason Pravda never succeeded in influencing anybody in the west? The entire point of learning from that is that you have to build credibility.

I think you are reading far more into my post than I wrote.

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Re:Twitter’s multi-million dollar US election pitch to RT by emodendroket on Friday October 27, 2017 @01:13PM (#15570299)
No, I'm not saying that. What I'm saying is that to be taken seriously they have to be serious, and they are serious enough that it doesn't make sense to talk about them like they're InfoWars.
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