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[–] derram 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

https://archive.is/Kgtj4 :

Milo Yiannopoulos, rightwing writer, permanently banned from Twitter | Technology | The Guardian

This has been an automated message.

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[–] OricaTonithos [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Thank you so much!

I'm new to this stuff and I know it sucks to follow links to the actual sites (When sometimes they edit or remove stuff....or use popups and paywalls).

BTW, how do get that archive thing to . .er, happen?

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[–] derram 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

There's currently no way to manually call the bot, it just looks for certain sites:

"theguardian.com", "salon.com", "gizmodo.com", "kotaku.com", "buzzfeed.com", "vice.com", "boingboing.net", 'huffingtonpost.com', 'jezebel.com', 'washingtonpost.com', 'slate.com', 'arstechnica.co', 'wired.com', 'esquire.com', 'polygon.com', 'recode.com', 'curbed.com', 'sbnation.com', 'vox.com', 'eater.com', 'cracked.com', 'engadget.com', 'destructoid.com', 'eurogamer.net', 'gameinformer.com', 'joystiq.com', 'pcgamer.com', 'rockpapershotgun.com', 'theverge.com', 'vox.com', 'wehuntedthemammoth.com', 'dailykos.com', 'thedailybeast.com', 'gamasutra.com', 'reddit.com', 'dailydot.com', 'pcgamesn.com', 'AusGamers.com', 'nydailynews.com', 'vocativ.com', 'telegraph.co.uk', 'twitter.com', 'slashdot.org', 'ign.com', 'kotaku.co.uk', 'kotaku.jp', 'gamespot.com', 'gizmodo.co.uk', 'themarysue.com', 'rawstory.com', 'geekparty.com', 'io9.com', 'jalopnik.com', 'gawker.com', 'lifehacker.com', 'deadspin.com', 'silverstringmedia.com', 'feministfrequency.com', 'xojane.com', 'uproxx.com', 'pcauthority.com.au', 'newyorker.com', 'feministing.com', 'facebook.com', 'bostonmagazine.com', 'nymag.com', 'time.com', 'rationalwiki.org', 'cnn.com', 'forbes.com', 'deadline.com', 'cinemablend.com', 'bostonglobe.com', 'digiday.com', 'fastcodesign.com', 'newsweek.com', 'pcmag.com', 'fortune.com', 'latimes.com', 'dailymail.co.uk', 'indieweb.org', 'neogaf.com', 'techcrunch.com', 'ycombinator.com', 'politico.com', 'bloomberg.com', 'nbcnews.com', 'nationalpost.com', 'newrepublic.com', 'thenation.com', 'alternet.org', 'independent.co.uk', 'theregister.co.uk', 'motherjones.com', 'pbs.org', 'nytimes.com', 'playboy.com', 'mediamatters.org', 'washingtontimes.com', 'theatlantic.com', 'stuff.co.nz', 'rollingstone.com', 'wsj.com', '.mic.com', '//mic.com', 'lawjournalpress.com', 'statescape.com', 'wcco.com', 'codeandtheory.com', 'theintercept.com', 'usatoday.com', 'LWN.net','noahpinionblog', 'nypost.com', '.rt.com', '//rt.com','techspot.com', 'businessinsider.com', 'reuters.com', 'thestar.com','cbc.ca', 'heatst.com', 'ibtimes.co.uk', 'politifact.com', 'theonion.com','theroot.com', 'venuspatrol.com', 'offworld.com', 'birthmoviesdeath.com', 'giantbomb.com', 'pastemagazine.com', 'rockpapershotgun.com', 'vg247.com', '.zam.com', '//zam.com', 'haaretz.co', 'blackmattersus.com', 'masslive.com', 'mediaite.com', 'politico.eu', 'somethingawful.com', 'culturess.com'

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[–] hwong 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

yup. I've been a "professional forum manager' off and on for over 20 years now. Started back in the dial up BBS days and then came up under the .com era when being a "forum manager" meant managing online tech support, proctoring chat rooms, minding message bases and knowledge bases (now WIKIS) and being the web front point for a company. Now it means managing perceptions and PR and slewing social media campaigning and reporting to fusion centers, usually to cover or shill for some BS company or product.

The point of this? People would not remotely understand how much backend work goes into developing tools, tech and methodologies for this type of thing from public companies and now, over the last ten years, government agencies and has been going on for a very long time, much longer then folks realize.

Frankly, don't trust anything you see on mainstream web now-a-days, really, just don't. if it's important, I guarantee it's been 'processed" through some opinion machine or group somewhere along the line. i.e. Think amazon reviews, FB posts, search engine results, twitter feeds, anything on DISQUS ,online forum reviews, reddit posts ect... all of these things are routinely doctored, feathered, manipulated, slid, brigaded and monitered. ..... the grey web is still about half reliable for opinions and the dark web is about 40-50% trustworthy when it comes to reliable opinions, but even these places are getting sniffed out by business and gov machines.

And remember kids.... while it doesn't seem very important to you now. The all seeing machine is watching and adding everything you do to you life-long X-keystore file.....

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[–] PM_ME_UR_NOODZ ago  (edited ago)

tl:dr but I made it a couple paragraphs.

I would expect many governments to have separate teams one to collect data and another team that actually gets involved and tries to influence shit. Ome would gather info for analysis and to measure the effectiveness of the I'm sure the nsa does it to monitor Americans and gather data to assist in domestic surveillance, the CIA & state department probably does the same shit to keep an eye on public sentiment elsewhere and increase the effectiveness of propaganda. I would expect UK, China, Russia, Iran, France, Australia, Israel, Japan, and others to all do the same sort of things. It's publicly available info that is easily recorded and aggregated, so there's no reason for organizations with the interest and the resources to not do it.