Yes, the featured article makes that clear the tools are not the threat, the “democratization of” the tools is the specific threat they are alerting people to. Hollywood and big brother have been doing propaganda and fake photos since forever, that’s not the problem CISA is reporting.

I worry about this. It's already quite difficult getting to the truth of something - every political party essentially flinging shit at each other with accusations of lies.

At this point, giving up entirely on any form of media seems appealing.

No idea why you're being downvoted. Governments the world over propagate disinformation every single day with absolute impunity.

Yesterday I was reading this article about the day the USA almost accidentally nuked itself:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash

> The Pentagon claimed at the time that there was no chance of an explosion and that two arming mechanisms had not activated.

> A United States Department of Defense spokesperson stated that the bomb was unarmed and could not explode.

> In 2013, information released as a result of a Freedom of Information Act request confirmed that a single switch out of four (not six) prevented detonation.

Nobody should ever trust a single thing these people say.

Hacker News downvotes anything that makes them feel unsafe

Or are there groups that upvote/downvote content to groom a certain narrative?

There are not many sites around that don’t have this problem.

I wonder why that is.