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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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