Comment by xbmcuser

2 years ago

This is the time of information warfare I guess they learned something from India "Pro-Indian 'fake websites targeted decision makers in Europe'" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-50749764

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reaperducer  2 years ago

In the U.S., rich people and political organizations are actually buying or setting up real newspapers in small towns so that when they post fake news on social media, they can reference a dead tree "news source" that is actually their own P.R. machine.

There have been a few articles about it in the real press (NYT, etc) over the last couple of years.

  • psunavy03  2 years ago

    This is no different from the majority of US history. Partisan/slanted news outlets have been a thing in the US going back to the Revolution, on both sides of the aisle. It's often a reason why larger cities had multiple papers. One for each side.

    • wolverine876  2 years ago

      > This is no different from the majority of US history.

      It is very different. I and many reading have been here for the time when it didn't happen this way, when the world was not drowning in disinformation.

      Turning it into a binary question: 0) It doesn't exist at all, or 1) It exists, makes the question meaningless (and ironically is a common form of misinformation, and technique of disinformation). By binary reasoning, murder exists whether we have law enforcement or not, and cancer always exists so you might as well smoke cigars and work in a coal mine.

      But what is the point of saying it's no different? Even if it were true, what do you conclude from that? Why make this argument?

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