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>The result is dangerous

The complaints in the article seem to apply to crapy sensationalist journalism in general and there is much more danger from that applying to immigrants, politics war and the like. If the Sun prints some nonsense Facebook's bots does it really matter? Nonsense about the enemies WMDs on the other hand can costs thousands of lives and billions of dollars.

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It does matter yes. Journalists have inordinate influence on politicians, if an outlet (much more likely the guardian in this case) is making nonsense claims about bots it can easily lead to legislation, especially if it lets politicians feel they're doing something.

Printing nonsense is dangerous in general. By lying to people, you're screwing with their minds, and this has unpredictable consequences.

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