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The question is, how can you be sure anything you see in the (controlled) news is not another instance of covert plots, false flags, and psyops [0]?

How, precisely how?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_operations_(Unit...

>>jdthed+(OP)
How can I be sure that you aren't a bot or vice versa?

>>inglor+y1
Don't worry, you're not the only person who can't answer this question.

Nobody can, that I know of.

>>jdthed+Y5
I don't worry much here, given that HN isn't a very lucrative space to infest with bots. We will hold out for a few years here.

I am no longer on Facebook or Twitter/X, where that question is very relevant.

>>inglor+H7
Hn is loaded with bots and this thread in particular is full of things that somehow have less political literacy than the typical American 8th grader.

>>select+M71
That is not really rare among engineers. Being able to write code does not require much political literacy, and I met more than a few political illiterates who were decent coders. In person, no bots.