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Re:The coming automation of propaganda by a3n on Friday August 09, 2019 @09:22PM (#20659565)
The strategy you describe is for someone who wants the truth.

If you instead want your assumptions reinforced, you pay attention to whatever source does that.

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Re:The coming automation of propaganda by friendlybus on Saturday August 10, 2019 @12:28AM (#20660163)
There's still a distinction of quality for reinforcing your world view. Humans have more impact than bots. Bots all lead back a human anyway so taking some meaningless bot chat is still less valuable than a human's perspective.
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