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Information operations directed at Hong Kong

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1116 points whatok | 1 comments | 19 Aug 19 18:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.268s | source
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theirkf ◴[19 Aug 19 19:01 UTC] No.20740698[source]▶
So this has become the norm now. Social media products who’s primary utility is to share information between people are now being used by governments to sow discord.
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1. colechristensen ◴[19 Aug 19 19:11 UTC] No.20740811[source]▶
They're just yet another business selling user's attention. That's not new. The utility was never users sharing with each other, it was always users providing minable information.

All of that information sharing just makes the sold attention more valuable to the buyers.