• Rose@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Your understanding of the troll factories is quite off. According to the ex-employees and the publicly available social media accounts data, the average troll paid by the Russian government is someone who poses as a person living in the West and even uses some Western talking points, making them hard to distinguish from a real person. They also get people in the West out to protest for BLM and guns rights, for and against immigration, and other causes with the goal of facilitating discord, which then creates headlines in the Western media, not Russia Today as you’d expect.

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        1 year ago

        So, you’re okay with being under the control of a company only showing you what they want.

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            1 year ago

            So, you are okay with your search provider deciding what is misinformation and what is not.

            Seems like a slippery slope to me.

            • Skeezix@lemmy.world
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              As long as they’re objectively deciding then yes. There really isn’t a decision to be made; information is either misinformation or not misinformation. There is no grey area for subjectivity. There is no room for opinion or interpretation. As long as they maintain a track record of being objective then it’s good.