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National Security Search Engine: Google's Ranks Are Filled with CIA Agents

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Re: National Security Search Engine: Google's Ranks Are Filled with CIA Agents

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Post by MuchoMaas »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #5
AinderS wrote: post #4

Don't worry everyone. Wikipedia says MintPress is a conspiratorial website spreading Syrian and Russian disinformation [1]. So even though all the claims in the article can be independently verified (through wikipedia itself [2], or if you go through LinkedIn's login wall), this article can be safely dismissed. It is better to wait for a trustworthy news source, such as the New York Times [3], to verify this. I'm sur…

> even though all the claims in the article can be independently verified (through wikipedia itself, or if you go through LinkedIn's login wall) Then link to those sources. Bad sourcing isn't sufficient for refutation. But it's more than enough for the reasonable to ignore it, and for experts to approach it with heightened qualification. (That said, thank you for flagging the shady sourcing.)

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Re: National Security Search Engine: Google's Ranks Are Filled with CIA Agents

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Post by sylware »

BuyMyBitcoins wrote: post #8
sylware wrote: post #2

Do you really think that ppl owning the global data of gogol, facebook/meta, linkedin and more would not use this data to get an unfair advantage in one way or another? Get real: It did happen, it is happening, and will keep to happen.

This is a pet peeve of mine, but why not spell out the word “people” when you’re spelling out every other word in your post?

Because I chat and I use abbreviations all the time, I don't even notice them anymore.

To make text communication very hard for text scanner bots, you can use SMS style chat with high variations, namely based on sounds, must be hell for text parsers, unless they spend tons of time training some ML to decode it.

Re: National Security Search Engine: Google's Ranks Are Filled with CIA Agents

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Post by AinderS »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #5
AinderS wrote: post #4

Don't worry everyone. Wikipedia says MintPress is a conspiratorial website spreading Syrian and Russian disinformation [1]. So even though all the claims in the article can be independently verified (through wikipedia itself [2], or if you go through LinkedIn's login wall), this article can be safely dismissed. It is better to wait for a trustworthy news source, such as the New York Times [3], to verify this. I'm sur…

> even though all the claims in the article can be independently verified (through wikipedia itself, or if you go through LinkedIn's login wall) Then link to those sources. Bad sourcing isn't sufficient for refutation. But it's more than enough for the reasonable to ignore it, and for experts to approach it with heightened qualification. (That said, thank you for flagging the shady sourcing.)

If only an incestuous relationship with Western intelligence agencies also made a source "shady"..

Re: National Security Search Engine: Google's Ranks Are Filled with CIA Agents

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Post by MuchoMaas »

AinderS wrote: post #13
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> even though all the claims in the article can be independently verified (through wikipedia itself, or if you go through LinkedIn's login wall) Then link to those sources. Bad sourcing isn't sufficient for refutation. But it's more than enough for the reasonable to ignore it, and for experts to approach it with heightened qualification. (That said, thank you for flagging the shady sourcing.)

If only an incestuous relationship with Western intelligence agencies also made a source "shady"..

Allen Dulles used to just call up the Washington Post to get reporters fired. This is a legitimate source, to me.
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