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The power of disinformation even when it was not even done well. I swallowed the report hook, line, and sinker.
My take: I don't think the government understands how must distrust there is for public institutions. The fact that they keep going on these pressers and lying to the public, only to be discredited after the fact, shows how tone deaf and disconnected from reality the politicians are. What's even more bizarre is all the people who are cheering on the police brutality, and encouraging more violence against unarmed prot…
The power of disinformation even when it was not even done well. I swallowed the report hook, line, and sinker.
I'm sure some would reject this but it's the human condition, we've all let our guard down at some point and let falsehoods...not just the uncertain or unsubstantiated, but outright intentional lies...gain purchase in our worldview.
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#dcBlackout was trending on Twitter last night. How do you explain that? There were _tons_ of accounts I saw (many with Korean/Chinese avatars, which were probably fronts) that were spreading the same misinformation, often were a shrill tone of panic and conspiracy. https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-dc-blackout-pro... For the curious, this is called a Sybil attack.
Like I said, I'm not arguing that the foreign misinformation campaigns don't exist. I'm just skeptical that the protests and riots wouldn't be happening regardless.
> it's extremely unusual to see the same email address with multiple different passwords in a legitimate data breach as most systems simply won't let an address register more than once I've actually built a system which did this years ago, over our initial protestations, and the reasoning went like this: Our client (this was a white label product) has lots of elderly couples as customers, these are our end users and…
The other thing I keep seeing is a "leak" of a court filing by "Anonymous" alleging that Trump and Epstein committed various sexual offenses. I think it's unfortunate that the disinformation attributing this to Anonymous is spreading because the court filing has been publicly available since 2016. It seems that two Twitter accounts are parroting this around under the guises on Anonymous which really discredits the ac…
The other thing I keep seeing is a "leak" of a court filing by "Anonymous" alleging that Trump and Epstein committed various sexual offenses. I think it's unfortunate that the disinformation attributing this to Anonymous is spreading because the court filing has been publicly available since 2016. It seems that two Twitter accounts are parroting this around under the guises on Anonymous which really discredits the ac…
This is impossible because Anonymous isn't an "actual group". It's any one who does anything and calls themselves Anonymous (a word that means "unknown name").
> it's extremely unusual to see the same email address with multiple different passwords in a legitimate data breach as most systems simply won't let an address register more than once I've actually built a system which did this years ago, over our initial protestations, and the reasoning went like this: Our client (this was a white label product) has lots of elderly couples as customers, these are our end users and…
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Blaming outside instigators is a common tactic for downplaying unrest. I'm not saying you're wrong, and I agree Russia does run campaigns with the purpose of sowing tensions, but I'm very skeptical of any causality between Russia and the movement, protests, or riots.
If there is unrest it is easy to stoke from anywhere. You have Marx living in london, lenin hanging out in germany. The point is. An under served population can be insighted with ideas from anywhere. But the root cause is still there in that community.
Russia was caught running ads during the 2016 election that were sympathetic to radical white and black nationalist groups, with the end goal of sowing racial tensions. [0] I'm of the firm belief that we're being played by a hostile state actor here. I have no way of proving this, but I strongly suspect that Russia and/or China are trying to spur on the unrest through digital disinformation like in the OP. EDIT: by u…
China an Russia have been stirring up American discourse aggressively through the internet for years. They would most certainly seize on an opportunity like this. The incident is ultimately caused in the US, but it's for sure going to have its flamed stoked by foreign actors. They don't build there systems for one off attacks. They have weapons of war.