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Is it all automated?
They're literally a contractor and consultant to russian military.
https://informnapalm.org/en/alabugaleaks-part-2-kaspersky-la...
If you do just a quick check of what this guy wrote, you'll see he isn't just "a critic".
His Ukraine-related articles are the real litmus test. He's literally spewing the russian propaganda nonsense.
His writing tone is "60s soviet propaganda" and the arguments are shallow and insubstantial, to say the least.
upd. Just checked his other articles. Yup, dude is a russian shill.
The last one is a documentary about the war in Ukraine. The actual raw uninterpreted reality of things that we read about in history books or in the news changes your perspective on many things, from politics to simple things in life that we often take for granted.
News stories force an agenda on you. History books may give you some knowledge about the reality we live in today. THIS lets you live through the traumatic experience of the history books and news story events.
https://www.adweek.com/media/google-paying-publishers-unrele...
Time for rebranding!
ClosedAI? MicrosoftAI? What do you think it should be?
It started in 2016 when Trump got elected after launching multiple successful online campaigns.
It was tested and improved during the covid outbreak and the latest US elections.
Now it's a huge gatekeeping machine that "protects you from mis- and disinformation online".
One of the criteria for allowing information on Google is "consensus". I assume legislation is considered consensus too.
As someone who owns a popular website, I often receive guest writing inquiries (probably for links and SEO).
Most of the time it's either Indians or Eastern European guys. But for some reason they always use fake personas and names to sound/look more "western".
When I asked why do they do that, the answer was "it increases the conversion rates" among "western" publishers. Who also happen to be the most valuable prospects.
So, basically they exploit the conscious or subconscious xenophobic biases in people of western cultures towards people from other "foreign" cultures by creating fake personas. And it works! People are more likely to accept guest articles from someone who looks like them.
PS. You would be surprised to know how many contributors at Forbes, Inc, Entrepreneur, Tech Crunch, Mashable, etc are completely fake personas.