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jetrinkyesterday at 5:05 PM2 repliesview on HN

Look at what foreign adversaries are already actively doing: working to turn Americans against each other. Social media is the perfect tool to spread discord. Russia has troll farms that create fake news stories, manipulated photos, and incendiary memes targeted at both sides of the political spectrum. They've even orchestrated in-person protests and counter-protests to those protests, though those efforts have been less successful. Now imagine that instead of merely using fake user accounts to this end, an adversary controlled an entire social network, including its algorithm and its content guidelines and could tailor manipulative content on an individual basis.


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suraciyesterday at 6:43 PM

funny many of us(Chinese) also believe that online disputes and the moral decay of teenagers are all part of a conspiracy by the US.

It's possible that we all wrong or we all right about it, or one of us are right

spencerflemyesterday at 6:01 PM

Or, equally as importantly, imagine if US oligarchs used to be doing that and can't as effectively anymore.