I think my favorite part of this snotty piece is that Osnos calls pseudonymity anonymity.
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In snotty piece about indictment of Internet trolls that claims "large numbers of Americans are ill-equipped to assess credibility of the things they read," Evan Osnos admits Mueller "trolling" the press.https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/reading-the-mueller-indictment-a-russian-american-fraud …
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I'm sorry - they need indictments for discovery?
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"Journalists have gotten everything about Mueller wrong so far and so I'll do it again all while bitching about the rubes who got fooled."
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The feds are usually pretty good at keeping most shit under wraps tbh. That's how they can maneuver these months long wiretaps and undercover operations.
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Knowing that would require knowing people who get wiretapped.
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"Even the trolls themselves were surprised at what Americans would believe." People believe Pres. Obama is a foreign born Muslim, & Hillary molests children in the basement of a pizza joint. Once you start down that road, you’ll believe anything.
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He actually didn't defend that point. But he would have been better talking about tribalism, starting with journalist tribalism.
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Mueller doesn't strike me as the "trolling" type.
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Point is, the loudest voices complaining about the gullibility of others are often purveyors or believers of false information themselves.
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Perhaps the Louise Mensch-following crowd but for the rest of us that double and triple check new information on
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No. But "trolling" was a very funny word to use to describe a man who refuses, for a long list of very good reasons, to be easy to read.
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It's true, as two others said below, that too many Americans happily indulged in motivated reasoning allowing them to believe lies and conspiracy theories. They also lack the skills to question & think critically. I see nothing "snotty" about stating what is an obvious truism.
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Maybe piece is snotty, but that "large numbers of Americans are ill-equipped to assess credibility of the things they read" is justifiable. Some are incapable; many more don't have the necessary context, or time/energy/motivation to critically assess amidst info overload.
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That is objectively true, and I'm completely stunned anyone could pretend otherwise. Especially someone who lives in Michigan.
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