The admission is nice, but note that there was no details as to who is being targeted or for what end. It's easy enough for me to read that and assume he's meddling in favor of people I don't...
The admission is nice, but note that there was no details as to who is being targeted or for what end. It's easy enough for me to read that and assume he's meddling in favor of people I don't like, but then it will be easy for anyone to read into it that the "other side" was favored. This admission of meddling the day before the election is itself meddling.
It is already well established who their interference efforts have been attempting to sway the public in favor of, and it's most definitely not the Democrats....
It is already well established who their interference efforts have been attempting to sway the public in favor of, and it's most definitely not the Democrats.
Well, yeah, of course. But there will be people who don't share our understanding of the world who will look at this statement and read it very differently. That's the joy of context collapse....
Well, yeah, of course. But there will be people who don't share our understanding of the world who will look at this statement and read it very differently. That's the joy of context collapse. This statement of meddling can be warped to mean whatever you want, if you just ignore the context.
Having one person from the other side come out in the open about their efforts won't change anything within the governing bodies that are already aware of meddling or with the thoughts of the...
Having one person from the other side come out in the open about their efforts won't change anything within the governing bodies that are already aware of meddling or with the thoughts of the people they're targeting, but it's a welcomed admission.
Discussing this issue can move one step further out of the tin-foil-hat arena and move more into factual tactics of modern international politics.
The admission is nice, but note that there was no details as to who is being targeted or for what end. It's easy enough for me to read that and assume he's meddling in favor of people I don't like, but then it will be easy for anyone to read into it that the "other side" was favored. This admission of meddling the day before the election is itself meddling.
It is already well established who their interference efforts have been attempting to sway the public in favor of, and it's most definitely not the Democrats.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/06/technology/russia-misinformation-midterms.html
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections
Well, yeah, of course. But there will be people who don't share our understanding of the world who will look at this statement and read it very differently. That's the joy of context collapse. This statement of meddling can be warped to mean whatever you want, if you just ignore the context.
Having one person from the other side come out in the open about their efforts won't change anything within the governing bodies that are already aware of meddling or with the thoughts of the people they're targeting, but it's a welcomed admission.
Discussing this issue can move one step further out of the tin-foil-hat arena and move more into factual tactics of modern international politics.