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Re:Trolls convinced journalists they were “abortion bounty h... by ryandrake on Saturday September 11, 2021 @01:20PM (#28493770)
> Even in the worst case, "I found an infinitesimal amount of nutty people on the internet" is not useful information for either a journalist or your personal model of the world.

Careful though, QAnon was once an infinitesimally small amount of nutty people, and now they have at least two[1], likely more, sitting US Congressional representatives, with 36 running next year[2].

1: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackbrewster/2020/11/04/congres...

2: https://www.businessinsider.com/the-36-qanon-supporters-runn...

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Re:Trolls convinced journalists they were “abortion bounty h... by wutbrodo on Saturday September 11, 2021 @11:12PM (#28498316)
Sure, I'm not suggesting there's 0% signal. I'm suggesting that the SNR of "someone said something crazy" is so close to zero as to be useless. Hell, crying wolf about it isnt just useless, it's counterproductive.
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