LLMs and Data Poisoning Are Weaponized to Manufacture Consensus

You lost me with this "Similarly, on World War II’s Eastern Front, the Soviet Union absorbed the catastrophic brunt of defeating Nazi Germany, losing 27 million soldiers and civilians (Ellman & Maksudov, 1994; Harrison, 2003). Yet modern Western consciousness treats that sacrifice as an awkward footnote, replacing it with Hollywood GIs storming Normandy."

You know what Western Consciousness lacks? A clear information Soviet Union is directly responsible for starting WW2 by attacking Poland (my country) in concert with Hitler.

There would be no WW2 if not for Ribbentrop-Molotov pact.

Soviets indeed helped fight Hitler once he switched from being an ally to an enemy. If he didn't choose to attack them it would've never happened.

Furthermore they enslaved the countries they came to "liberate" for 50 years and hunted the remainder of our army till 1960s. So forgive me if I do not consider them worthy of any praise whatsoever.

The irony of this article being fully LLM-written

A decent article... but what is this nonsense here:

> This erased the continuous reality stretching back to 1948 the Nakba, which displaced over 700,000 Palestinians and depopulated hundreds of villages (Morris, 2004; Pappé, 2006), alongside decades of military occupation, settlement expansion, and a sixteen-year land, air, and sea blockade.

The author himself erases things here, namedly the various attempts of Israel's neighbors to wipe Israel off of the map, or many Arab and African nations expelling their Jewish population (that often was there for hundreds if not thousands of years) to Israel.

The conflict is murky enough as it is (and in fact dates back to far, far longer times, including the collapse of the British Colonial Empire that wrecked many other nations with repercussions to this day, first and foremost India/Pakistan), there is no need to act like one is neutral and then in fact be selective.

Honestly, if there is no need to bring in the Israel/Palestine conflict into a topic (aka, you're discussing everything but the conflict itself), then just don't. It is far too complex, many points of view are determined by the timeframe one is considering... just don't. You will shoot yourself in the foot.

...among the cultists.

I'd say what's important is seeing how the American administration is embracing this stuff.

TFA is highly confused. The story about the easter front during WWII is well-known: and it's not because Russia lost more men that they were more efficient (they weren't) than the US during WWII. We're talking about one nation whose army orchestrated the biggest logistic event in the world, ever, and that same nation that succeeded in mastering the atom well enough to make Japan surrender (which as a sidenote prevented Russia from capturing Japan).

While meanwhile Russia was sending its troops by feet or on donkeys to the german front.

So please, just please: both Russia and the US (and the UK, and others) participated in defeating the nazis but it's not because Russia sent malnourished troops on donkeyback and lost 27 million men that it "did more" to beat the nazis.

Then TFA seems also very slanted: it begins with Russia, China and Iran poisining the web to manufacture consensus but then it's all about Belgium / Leopold in the late 19th century attacking Congo.

Yes, we know that happened. It was 150 years ago. It's not Leopold who's now data poisoning LLMs to try to pretend Belgium didn't invade Congo in 1880 or something.

The fact is: Russia is currently attacking Ukraine and poisoning the Web (and hence LLMs) and Iran slaughtered 30 000 of its own civilians in early 2026 and publicly hung athletes who were speaking out about islamism and Iran is also poisoning the Web (for example while we constantly hear about Gaza, we hardly ever hear about Iran slaughtering 30 000 civilians, sending its guards into hospitals to finish the wounded).

So who's poising the Web here? TFA's author with its political views and priorities (apparently not denouncing the evilness of the iranian regime in 2026 nor denouncing the evilness of nazism in WWII but denouncing... the acts of Belgium in fucking 1880)?

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TL; DR: propaganda still works in the age of LLMs.

Remember, it's only "manufactured consent" when it's about something they don't like.