Disinformation for hire, a shadow industry, is quietly booming
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#2Ironic that this is from the New York Times, which has (in)famously had several years of poor or biased reporting.
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#4Ehh, I don't like current state of the Internet
In last months I've started wondering why do I even pay my internet bills
60% of the reason I still do it is that I need internet for my job
the rest is HN, two or three subreddits, music and some video games, wiki/google/maps and the fact that I still need to learn a lot in order to advance in career.
It's insanely hard to avoid that main stream media content (celebrities, dramas, dramas, dramas and $bad_stuff/propaganda) that affects the mood, even when I don't use "normal" social medias.
Re: Disinformation for hire, a shadow industry, is quietly booming
#5Ironic that this is from the New York Times, which has (in)famously had several years of poor or biased reporting.
Curious, Are there earlier examples of negligence, prior to the episode of "weapons of mass destruction"?
When did the decline really start?
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#6Ironic that this is from the New York Times, which has (in)famously had several years of poor or biased reporting.
Ah, the pot getting jealous of losing influence and calling the kettle black.
As someone pointed out upthread, these media take money from foreign interests (China, Russia, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and quite a umber of others) and it's all good according to them, because they apparently are "good" by self-definition.
They are part of the problem!
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#7This is so messed up. If you’re reading this and are in this ‘business’, or associated with it/supporting it, please, for the sake of yourself, your families, humanity and the planet we live on, get out if you have any choice! It’s been bad enough with state actors, lobbyists etc etc. for years anyhow - don’t make it worse for the sake of a quick buck!
Re: Disinformation for hire, a shadow industry, is quietly booming
#8Ehh, I don't like current state of the Internet In last months I've started wondering why do I even pay my internet bills 60% of the reason I still do it is that I need internet for my job the rest is HN, two or three subreddits, music and some video games, wiki/google/maps and the fact that I still need to learn a lot in order to advance in career. It's insanely hard to avoid that main stream media content (celebrit…
Internet is just a big IP network. I use it to talk to certain servers like email, my vps, or my personal home server. The other servers I talk to I dont own so I spend as little time sending them requests as possible.
If you stop sending strange servers requests for unwanted data you'll feel much better :-)
Re: Disinformation for hire, a shadow industry, is quietly booming
#9Ironic that this is from the New York Times, which has (in)famously had several years of poor or biased reporting.
Curious, Are there earlier examples of negligence, prior to the episode of "weapons of mass destruction"? When did the decline really start?
cf Noam Chomsky: Manufacturing Consent (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent_(film))
Re: Disinformation for hire, a shadow industry, is quietly booming
#10Ironic that this is from the New York Times, which has (in)famously had several years of poor or biased reporting.
Even credible news sources are bound to have an implicit bias, to a certain degree. There is, however, quite a few other types of media sources ranging from media bias, to fake news, misinformation, disinformation etc. I recommend reading the Cornell university library guides to learn about how to distinguish one from the other.