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What’s to say this isn’t our own state sponsored propaganda? Source: “ The CIA and the New York Times: An unanswered question” - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/027793...

There's an entire worldwide underground black market economy of these sorts of things. "Dark web" isn't just a meme. If there's any propaganda it's that it's just China. It's all over the place.

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Nothing surprising here. All sides are waging an information war, which has been going on for decades. It's much cheaper and cleaner than physical warfare. And if done correctly, the source of attacks can be difficult to trace.

Growing up, I always wondered why war happened in real life versus in video games. You can duke it out without actually costing lives. I guess this kind of thing tends to do both.

> in video games

What a world to live in that would be.

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Nothing surprising here. All sides are waging an information war, which has been going on for decades. It's much cheaper and cleaner than physical warfare. And if done correctly, the source of attacks can be difficult to trace.

Growing up, I always wondered why war happened in real life versus in video games. You can duke it out without actually costing lives. I guess this kind of thing tends to do both.

Sounds like "A Taste of Armageddon"[1], a Star Trek episode where neighboring warring planets decide to wage simulated war in order to spare expensive real infrastructure. Except in this imagination, the people declared "dead" were required to report to disintegration chambers within 24 hours.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Taste_of_Armageddon

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What’s to say this isn’t our own state sponsored propaganda? Source: “ The CIA and the New York Times: An unanswered question” - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/027793...

"An unanswered question" from 1951...

Applying that to any current situation is foolish at best.

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Nothing surprising here. All sides are waging an information war, which has been going on for decades. It's much cheaper and cleaner than physical warfare. And if done correctly, the source of attacks can be difficult to trace.

Growing up, I always wondered why war happened in real life versus in video games. You can duke it out without actually costing lives. I guess this kind of thing tends to do both.

this is the role of sport

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What’s to say this isn’t our own state sponsored propaganda? Source: “ The CIA and the New York Times: An unanswered question” - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/027793...

HN truly brings out some of the dumbest shit in people the moment the topic moves even slightly away from technology.

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What’s to say this isn’t our own state sponsored propaganda? Source: “ The CIA and the New York Times: An unanswered question” - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/027793...

"An unanswered question" from 1951... Applying that to any current situation is foolish at best.

Can you explain why? Do you think the CIA has stopped doing these things?
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