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I wanted to add that I don't at all appreciate the editorializing done in this writeup from the Tor team.

I have no particulatr love for any of the following topics mentioned, but the facts simply do not comply with their stance on "fake news". In case I need a disclaimer, for instance, I have not voted for Trump or Brexit or Bolsonaro. I with not be voting for any of those in future either. But for Tor to pretend that the "facts'" are in and settled on these issues is false and dangerous for an org that supposedly fosters free expression and should have no political affiliation.

The passage in question:

"We’ve seen that with massive data sets collected through online surveillance, governments and corporations can use their knowledge about us to manipulate public opinion. Highly targeted campaigns using this data, especially those using fake news or hate speech, have driven nations towards decisions that affect global society. The campaign for the Brexit referendum in the UK, Trump's election campaign in the U.S., and Bolsonaro’s election campaigns in Brazil all explicitly used these tactics."

Quite frankly this strong take assuming the facts are sttled and there is only one truth to arrive at and that "fake news" is arbitrated by some almighty knower of truths (in this case the outlets linked to as well as the tor staff posting this) is horseshit and loses a lot of respect from me in the process.

They do not say "issues on many sides of these topics", for instance. They say specifically the campaigns for those people/topics utilize fake news. And maybe so. But so too do their opponents and opposition "sides". This has been proven. So negative points for the editorial angle.