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Re:China Spreads Propaganda to U.S. On Facebook, a Platform ... by BeetleB on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @04:19PM (#15657157)
The lighter being China?

https://www.npr.org/2016/12/22/506625913/database-tracks-his...

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Re:China Spreads Propaganda to U.S. On Facebook, a Platform ... by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @04:26PM (#15657219)
The one that feels the need to block Facebook of course is worse. I’ll let you figure out what country is that.
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Re:China Spreads Propaganda to U.S. On Facebook, a Platform ... by mmel on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @05:32PM (#15657774)
Why is blocking Facebook bad? I do not think the existence of Facebook has been a net-positive for society.
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Re:China Spreads Propaganda to U.S. On Facebook, a Platform ... by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @06:43PM (#15658288)
Propaganda and censorship are two different evils, the latter is worse than the former, IMHO, because it silences the conversation all together.
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Re:China Spreads Propaganda to U.S. On Facebook, a Platform ... by BeetleB on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @04:33PM (#15657286)
And I'll let you figure out which country is more guilty in manipulating elections.
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Re:China Spreads Propaganda to U.S. On Facebook, a Platform ... by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @06:43PM (#15658296)
China doesn’t have elections (well, meaningful ones at least), so you are probably right there.
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