alt Hacker NewsI find it easy to believe. If Russia can run a psyop to sway opinion towards supporting their interests why can’t China? HN is hardly some tiny unknown forum.
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ethbr1 • yesterday at 11:38 PM
Psyop is probably an overly sophisticated term. Garbage-spam is more apropos.
E.g. Fox News comments are that are base-level "Nunh unh!" or argumentless boosting.
HN is absolutely a tiny unknown forum. To my understanding, it has around 5 million or so uniques monthly. By contrast, Instagram has 2 billion registered active users, and it’s only the 4th most popular