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MASNeo | 10 days ago

Worse, half-truths and half-lies.

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GoblinSlayer|10 days ago

That's why diversity of sources is the only way to escape censorship: you get one half truth from one source, another half truth from another source, then two halves make whole truth.

ben_w|10 days ago

That's also trivial to manipulate; control the narrative, and you control the Overton window. People picking the middle of two fake options are still under the influence of whoever chose those options — just ask any stage magician.

intended|10 days ago

This assumes you have the cognitive resources to do that. Most people just switch to someone they trust to avoid exactly this. Matter of fact, that was the major advantage of the net back in the day.

LtWorf|9 days ago

But RT is banned in most of europe

locknitpicker|10 days ago

> That's why diversity of sources is the only way to escape censorship:

No, it's a page out of the old fascist playbook where flooding the stage with propaganda generates enough confusion to help fascists further their hateful agenda.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

gdubya|10 days ago

Ah, a new "WTF": Worse Than False!