Information operations directed at Hong Kong

Re:Information operations directed at Hong Kong by alephnan on Monday August 19, 2019 @02:53PM (#20740617)

I immediately thought to lookup Twitter's company about section. Under Values:

> We believe in free expression and think every voice has the power to impact the world.

Edit: I didn’t realize I appeared to be supporting the trolls. No, I meant it’s good to know Twitter would support the Hong Kong protestors.

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Re:Information operations directed at Hong Kong by djohnston on Monday August 19, 2019 @03:02PM (#20740706)

authentic voice, not paid gov't troll armies.

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Re:Information operations directed at Hong Kong by magduf on Monday August 19, 2019 @05:33PM (#20742017)

Devil's advocate: what if the "troll army" is actually a whole army of people from that country who are brainwashed to believe the party line? Is that not "authentic" if they really believe it?

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Re:Information operations directed at Hong Kong by djohnston on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @09:11AM (#20746559)

not if they're being paid to produce the content (wumao pawns are). if they're NOT being paid, i would guess you are right, but frankly we should have disconnected china from the free world a long time ago and only given them logistics software. it's frustrating that they shut the west out but constantly try and infect the west with their backwards ideas

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Re:Information operations directed at Hong Kong by Shinobi881 on Monday August 19, 2019 @03:08PM (#20740771)

But yeah “every voice”. May have to start explicitly excluding government propaganda and/or “troll armies”.

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