Trolls convinced journalists they were “abortion bounty hunters”
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Trolls convinced journalists they were “abortion bounty hunters”
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#2Who gives a fuck about some reddit faggot drama? Kill yourself, cunt.
Re: Trolls convinced journalists they were “abortion bounty hunters”
#3something something death of research.
Too Good To Check: A Play In Three Acts: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/too-good-to-check-a-pl...
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#4Only a fool listens to the news. Stop wasting your time, it is universally garbage
Re: Trolls convinced journalists they were “abortion bounty hunters”
#5The author of this article says it was unsubtle, obvious satire but I would say that the post they referenced was solidly in Poe’s law territory. Is it really so hard to imagine someone genuinely writing that? Perhaps they’ve never met a misogynist.
Wishing for it to be true after it had been shown to be false is one thing (and clearly dumb), but I think the existence of such a subreddit is a perfectly reasonable thing to be outraged over in the first place. Texas’s SB8 will cause real harm, and making fun of people who are deeply concerned for women’s safety because of it seems borderline sociopathic to me.
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#6Those damned “Internet Troublemakers” always causing a stir.
Re: Trolls convinced journalists they were “abortion bounty hunters”
#7something something death of research. Too Good To Check: A Play In Three Acts: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/too-good-to-check-a-pl...
Great read, thanks for the link!
Re: Trolls convinced journalists they were “abortion bounty hunters”
#8It doesn’t take much to convince “professional journalists” of things, as long as the things confirm their priors.
I’d cut them some slack, because we’re all bad at that, but their literal job is to check things out.
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Re: Trolls convinced journalists they were “abortion bounty hunters”
#10It doesn’t take much to convince “professional journalists” of things, as long as the things confirm their priors. I’d cut them some slack, because we’re all bad at that, but their literal job is to check things out.
> It doesn’t take much to convince “professional journalists” of things, as long as the things confirm their priors.
As long as it fits into a convenient, simple, marketable narrative that isn’t unacceptable to the outlet the journalist works for, its not that hard. Bonus, sure, if its one that the outlet the journalist works for is already pushing (which is probably more important in most cases than the journalist’s own priors; in fact, that this is the case is pretty visible when journalists switch outlets.)