alt Hacker NewsWhich illustrates another problem: unscrupulous actors with big names can spread whatever information they want to millions of people with minimal effort.
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MassPikeMike • yesterday at 10:51 PM
Ever since the invention of the printing press, every new communication technology has reduced the effort needed to widely disseminate information-- and misinformation! So you could say this is nothing new. On the other hand, this is remarkably little effort.
nomdep • yesterday at 11:11 PM
Yes, they can. We can be glad that respectable newspapers and TV news channels have never done it and never will. You can even trust than the headlines are accurate summaries of the content of the articles. /s
Exactly. I chose to abuse my platform to promote Teresa T as the name of a whale.