They testified to journalists after the siege was lifted. https://twitter.com/tgytsc/status/664435442876575744 …
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Talk of systemic human abuses—refugees, Kurds—now met online with "merchants of doubt." They don't care about truth—just need to cast doubt.
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Systemic pumping of doubt—find one error, blow it out of proportion, make verification hard, ignore anything verified—is the new censorship.
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With my 2015 eyes, if I could go back and fund anti-censorship tools, I'd worry less about circumvention and more about verification.
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I'm not claiming blocking access has disappeared. It's done. It just matters less because info is hard to block if motivated people network.
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But there is no easy solution to people unable to trust information, and this deliberate pumping of doubt (and anti-intellectual climate.)
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