Re:Social media is broken – a new report offers ways to fix it
by xg15 on Sunday July 04, 2021 @03:21PM
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Bellingcat and Radio Free Europe are considered reliable sources, while Wikileaks is not...
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Re:Social media is broken – a new report offers ways to fix it
by morpheos137 on Sunday July 04, 2021 @05:01PM
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Bellingcat is obviously an MI6 PR outlet. To believe otherwise is ludicrous. Some stay at home dad who used to sell women's underwear has an independent insight on world class covert activities? Give me a break!
Re:Social media is broken – a new report offers ways to fix it
by quickthrowman on Sunday July 04, 2021 @08:47PM
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Bellingcat was started by a Something Awful poster/moderator called Brown Moses, you can look at his old posts to see his evolution from discussion board member to journalist by reading his old posts.
FWIW I don’t think it’s an MI6 backed site
Re:Social media is broken – a new report offers ways to fix it
by FreeSpeech on Sunday July 04, 2021 @04:48PM
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Bellingcat participated in a covert UK foreign-office funded program with the BBC to "weaken Russian": https://thegrayzone.com/2021/02/20/reuters-bbc-uk-foreign-of...
Anyone suggesting Bellingcat is more reliable than Wikileaks is regurgitating establishment talking points.
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Re:Social media is broken – a new report offers ways to fix it
by dang on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @01:09AM
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We've banned this account for using HN primarily for political/ideological battle. That's against the site guidelines because it destroys this place for its intended purpose—and for that reason, we ban accounts that do it, regardless of which politics/ideology they're battling for.
Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with. Single-purpose accounts are not cool in general, because pre-existing agendas aren't sympatico with curiosity, which is the core value of this site.