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Re:New York Times Co. Reports $24M Profit, Thanks to Digital... by jkalo on Thursday August 09, 2018 @08:44AM (#17723696)
True. I think ppl think the Russians or who ever have to create content farms to spread fud. All bad actors have to do is find lunatics with fringe views and keep upvoting.

Media and social media are trained like lab rats to pick up anything that is getting views and amplify it. The underlying architecture has to change. The feedback mechanisms that drive this must be slowed down or removed.

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Re:New York Times Co. Reports $24M Profit, Thanks to Digital... by spookthesunset on Thursday August 09, 2018 @11:54AM (#17725275)
> All bad actors have to do is find lunatics with fringe views and keep upvoting.

Or just get bots / click farmers to do all the work. The crackpots will latch on eventually...

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