Story about Russian propaganda immediately flagged and removed

9 points by grabbag 9y ago ↗ HN

The "news" on this site recently had a story about Russian propaganda and what could be done about it. It was immediately littered with what seemed to be "propaganda" comments about how the article couldn't possibly be valid. Then it was removed from HN.

What gives?

Original item and link:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13413878

https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/perspectives/PE100/PE198/RAND_PE198.pdf

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ash 9y ago ↗

I'm not trying to explain, because I don't know. But the story was posted before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13040737 (22 points, 52 days ago)

And first mentioned in the relevant thread 141 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12377286

grabbag 9y ago ↗

Reasonable... it's just funny because the article from today had the first three comments that were clearly from trolls. But thanks for the info.

Zuider 9y ago ↗

I could be wrong, but it looks like a valid and interesting article. While it is a duplicate post, enough time has passed since the original submission. It may have been reflexively flagged due to concerns that it consisted of politically partisan clickbait.

mindcrime 9y ago ↗

It's marginally on-topic IMO, and people are probably just getting burned out on this whole topic. I didn't see it or flag it, but had I seen it, I would have been tempted to flag it. shrug It happens, there's probably not a big conspiracy or anything.

Unless there is...

ethbro 9y ago ↗

Isn't people getting burned out by contradictory information exactly the theory? /conspiracy