I frequently consult foreign media sources, as much propaganda is directed regionally. I am unaware of any corporate media organization that isn't a paid propaganda outlet globally. I have been very grateful to discover independent parties that verify, dispute, or add context to news.
While there are a few accounts on the Steem ecosystem that undertake nefarious censorship and propaganda purposes as directed by corporate interests, we are generally far less susceptible to censorship and propaganda than non-blockchain media, and far less of a target for such ops.
Indeed, burgeoning technical ability being ever more widely dispersed to folks able to discern fact from fiction is increasingly doing exactly that today, as resistance to censorship and propaganda is countering the disinformation campaigns being conducted against us.
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You see, in 2017 there was an account @markboss. He or his group was doing a very kind and generous job of finding posts and proposing them for the @curie award. The proposed posts were grouped by category and collected in a post with a brief description. Then all of a sudden, someone started considering those collections as spam, while actually, his posts wouldn't clog anyone's feed unless you'd follow his account. So, at least I would never consider those collections spam, but sort of promotion that could be read as a sort of newspaper, where one could quickly find good posts. His account was flagged so severely that he stopped posting those collections and stopped working for @curie altogether. It is then that I stopped believing that people here a non-revengeful. For my point of view, his doing was totally non-invasive. When I followed his account my feed certainly got clogged, but I simply unfollowed and sought his collection posts under All tags and that's was it. Maybe I wouldn't even notice his account but he was the first one who saw anything in my posts then, and much to my surprise even @curie did. But the way they smashed him by flagging was simply unbelievable.
Well, for me spam is just unsolicited email, but here it seems has quite another meaning.
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