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Re:Botched CIA Communications System Helped Blow Cover of Ch... by Rapzid on Thursday August 16, 2018 @04:31AM (#17772944)
If you study the grammar on a lot of these posts, all over the internet even, you may come to the conclusion that the posters are government plants or Chinese CCP zealots.

I wouldn't rule out a massive propoganda campaign; HN, mainstream news article comments, suspicious Quora "questions" about China with manipulative "answers", Confucius Institutes!..

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Re:Botched CIA Communications System Helped Blow Cover of Ch... by 68c12c16 on Thursday August 16, 2018 @06:06AM (#17773329)
It would be nice if someone could come up with an algorithm that automatically tell which posts are astroturfing, just like fakespot.com But apparently this would be much more difficult than the algorithm used by fakespot, and seem to be less domain specific...

But at least, perhaps, we could do some information clustering, as comments written by independent individuals are more likely to have greater variances -- and quite often, difference is what makes an individual human so valuable...

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Re:Botched CIA Communications System Helped Blow Cover of Ch... by JetSpiegel on Thursday August 16, 2018 @08:40AM (#17774080)
Call it Pravda.

Musk is game for it.

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Re:Botched CIA Communications System Helped Blow Cover of Ch... by toomanybeersies on Thursday August 16, 2018 @07:50PM (#17779354)
Not even just comments on news articles.

I've read plenty of news articles that view China and their foreign policy with suspiciously rose tinted glasses. Especially around the One Belt One Road initiative.

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