Dilandu wrote:And? Peoples also talked themselves into a frenzy about "Russian imvolvement" and invented stories about "Russia pays bounties for American soldiers". This stuff does have INTERNATIONAL consequences, but for some reason you are not arguing that promoters of said ideas must be shut up until they produce clear, undisputable evidences?
Disinformation and propaganda are, as you say, global problems. Does that mean that we can only address them globally?
I don't think so. I think there's value to look at a community (or parts of a community) and the discussions happening in it and checking if they're still recognizably part of reality and raising an alarm if they aren't.
It seems to me that you're being incredibly fatalistic here. Your line of argumentation seems to imply that you believe that, if disinformation can't be stopped on the international scale, why should we strive to stop it on a scale that we can actually affect.
I disagree there, obviously. I think that, when you see someone leaving consensus reality, it's a good idea to try and drag them back, and that that's one of the duties that a community manager or moderator has.
That mass media and journalists must be silenced, not stir the public opinion against other nation working on rumors?
Why would I talk about that in a topic about the forums associated with US SF/F publisher Baen? Like, this topic here is fundamentally about community management in my view. How does an entity like Baen curate their community in ways that reflect its values, that (to me anyway) is the interesting question here; This, to my mind, has little if anything to do with journalistic ethics and malpractice. Not that that isn't a relevant topic of discussion by itself, it totally is, but I am not sure it's a relevant topic here, in this thread.
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