Comment by internetter

Comment by internetter 10 hours ago

> Either everyone is 3x as likely to comment on it as usual or something else is different. Ijs.

Or maybe this story is hugely relevant to a lot more people than your average story? I find it hard to believe china is waging a huge phsyop on HN

horrible-hilde 9 hours ago

The “it cant happen to here” is strong in America. I saw a guy videotaping the palisades fire instead of packing and vacating. People thinks it only happens in the movies but on my time on earth reality is far stranger than fiction

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madrox 9 hours ago

I find it easy to believe. If Russia can run a psyop to sway opinion towards supporting their interests why can’t China? HN is hardly some tiny unknown forum.

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internetter 9 hours ago

HN is absolutely a tiny unknown forum. To my understanding, it has around 5 million or so uniques monthly. By contrast, Instagram has 2 billion registered active users, and it’s only the 4th most popular

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ethbr1 9 hours ago

Psyop is probably an overly sophisticated term. Garbage-spam is more apropos.
E.g. Fox News comments are that are base-level "Nunh unh!" or argumentless boosting.

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