<story><title>Protests become fertile ground for online disinformation</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/06/01/867137863/none-of-this-is-true-protests-become-fertile-ground-for-online-disinformation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EVdotIO</author><text>It seems like there is some serious disinformation&amp;#x2F;psych ops working overtime across the internet right now; the tone is weirdly hostile. I would hope people would question the motivation of obviously divisive rhetoric, but it&amp;#x27;s clear that is a resounding no. As they say, people always buy with their emotions.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m afraid the days of an open internet are quickly closing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stcredzero</author><text>&lt;i&gt;It seems like there is some serious disinformation&amp;#x2F;psych ops working overtime across the internet right now; the tone is weirdly hostile&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;As someone who has been online since the late 1980&amp;#x27;s, this sentence can easily apply increasingly to the Internet since around 2014 onwards.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;I&amp;#x27;m afraid the days of an open internet are quickly closing.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;That ship sailed years ago. You&amp;#x27;re just not in one of the groups being actively censored or &amp;quot;good as lied about&amp;quot; yet.</text></comment>
<story><title>Protests become fertile ground for online disinformation</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/06/01/867137863/none-of-this-is-true-protests-become-fertile-ground-for-online-disinformation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EVdotIO</author><text>It seems like there is some serious disinformation&amp;#x2F;psych ops working overtime across the internet right now; the tone is weirdly hostile. I would hope people would question the motivation of obviously divisive rhetoric, but it&amp;#x27;s clear that is a resounding no. As they say, people always buy with their emotions.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m afraid the days of an open internet are quickly closing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vsareto</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s nothing weird about the hostility, it&amp;#x27;s to stoke racial conflict.</text></comment>