Story about Russian propaganda immediately flagged and removed

9 pointsgrabbag5 comments

The "news" on this site recently had a story about Russian propaganda and what could be done about it. It was immediately littered with what seemed to be "propaganda" comments about how the article couldn't possibly be valid. Then it was removed from HN.

What gives?

Original item and link:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13413878

https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/perspectives/PE100/PE198/RAND_PE198.pdf

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