Shorter WaPo: Trolling sometimes goes viral. And to prove this viral trolling "undermines the west" I'm going to give it FAR more publicity.https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/852411122644856832 …
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Hell if I know. It's definitely a complex problem. But the first step is convincing people that such propaganda DOES exist.
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Not in understanding that our media system is what makes us weak, not the actual content--especially fairly harmless trolling--of any media?
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My grandma reads an account like that one and trusts it over an established journalist because she doesn't know the difference.
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Or maybe it's bc WaPo "an established journalist" is using the same tactics.
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Fetishizing "established journalism" that uses precisely the same tactics is not going to help.
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Nyt's home page 404 for the last 2 hours, it's 7:15 am in New York. They haven't been hacked, but something majorly wrong.
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You sure about that? Opens fine for me.
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Yeah I just refreshed, nothing on the west coast. Web files are cached in servers around the country, my end of the pipe is dry in CA.
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Because right now, too many people can't even distinguish between journalism and propaganda. And that's the root problem here.
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Which is far different than saying RU propaganda, which gets far less attention than right wing propaganda, threatens the west.
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