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My concern is connecting the information in this article with the multitude of scandals over the last few years. The idea that the government is willing to bribe journalists and put pressure on them to hold back stories or introduce false or misleading stories is extreemly dangerous. Combine that with a vast, yet fragile system of information online and you can have an extremly dangerous situation.
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i'm not quite sure what you're getting at when you say "multitude of scandals over the last few years". are you referring to the psy-ops listed in the article? do you really think planting US-favorable info is a
scandal? if so, how in the world can you separate the described instances from other psy-op methods? if you condemn those uses of this millenia-old strategic tool, how can you avoid advocating the removal of it from our military's arsenal altogether?
even considering all that, each instance (it seemed to me) was directed at foreign audiences... i don't think you can justify linking it to fears of domestic propaganda with the given information.
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Not according to Will Smith.
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