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Pwn All The Things 29. sij
This is an ironic headline, given that it is, itself, disinformation
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Pwn All The Things 29. sij
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The ultimate problem -- and this is just one example of it -- is how information gets compressed from its original nuanced form in multiple steps, each dropping critical qualifiers, until the result is basically false clickbait
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Pwn All The Things 29. sij
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The original press release is pretty clear on the scope of this law: it will have penalties for knowingly disseminating false information about how and when to vote in order to suppress turnout (+link)
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That gets buried a little bit in the article, four paragraphs in, just after a discussion about tech companies needing to be more accountable. The compression here drops the qualifier that this is about *specific* facts about how and when to vote.
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Pwn All The Things 29. sij
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The headline compresses this even further: it's now turned into a generalized criminal penalty for spreading "voting disinformation" online. I get it, headlines have to be catchy and compressed. But lots of nuance has been lost to get us even this far.
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Pwn All The Things 29. sij
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But it doesn't even stop there. The information gets squeezed even further to end up in the final tweet, dropping even the qualifier that this is anything at all to do with elections
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Pwn All The Things 29. sij
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So we have a compression of information that goes from "it should be illegal to intentionally suppress voters via e.g. a campaign to tell them the wrong day to vote" to "saying wrong things online should be illegal" in a series of steps, each one dropping critical detail
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Pwn All The Things 29. sij
Odgovor korisniku/ci @pwnallthethings
I don't know how you can persuade people to actually read the source and not just headlines. But it's definitely not helping when news orgs reduce original docs & sources to a clickbaity headline that makes claims that are completely unrecognizable from the original
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Pwn All The Things 29. sij
Odgovor korisniku/ci @pwnallthethings
Anyway, tl;dr is go read more original sources and read fewer headlines and tweets
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