Rage Farms

The claim is out there that of the foreign sites stirring up anger in America, both tactically and to make money for themselves, were more likely to be conservative than liberal.  That could be. There are plenty of easily fooled conservatives out there. I don't know that to be true.  The claim was in the NYTimes, Newsweek, and Richard Hanania that I saw.  I haven't looked at the numbers myself. I suppose I would have had a mild preference that it was lots of liberals who were taken in, har har. But if it makes gullible conservatives more cautious, I'm all for that. It guess it must be easy, and there is some discussion about imitating tone versus relying on images, which I suppose I could get interested in if I were reading someone I trusted.

But it's exposing frauds.  I'm all for that. It's a win. Bring it on. 

I have seen many reports that pro-Palestine sites are much more likely to come from outside Palestine than pro-Israel ones come from outside Israel, which come primarily from Israel and America. I don't find that surprising, as internationally, the topic is largely about political tribes, with the conflict itself used for examples of fairness/unfairness rather than tracking the results.