Re:Ask HN: How to combat propaganda?
by bjourne on Monday March 28, 2022 @05:01PM
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Make it worth their while to change their mind. Anti-vaxxers can be persuaded to get vaccinated by offering them rewards. Others follow the lead of celebrities they like and respect. It may not work on everyone but it works on the group-level.
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Re:Ask HN: How to combat propaganda?
by adamrezich on Monday March 28, 2022 @05:44PM
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the solution to countering propaganda is counter-propaganda?
how can a consumer of counter-propaganda be certain that the Truth expressed in said counter-propaganda is Genuine, when the same techniques as the ones that the opposing viewpoint is using are being deployed to propagate it?
surely, if you are certain that your viewpoint is the Genuine Truth, then it will not need to be propagated through propaganda?
Not propaganda, but you have to realize that people are opportunistic and acting in their own self-interests. Companies pulling out of Russia and people standing with Ukraine are doing so, while at the same time ignoring decades of Israeli aggression against Palestinians, are doing so because it is opportune. Not because they care about the Genuine Truth.