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@jwildeboer I remember talking about these things as part of "computational literacy" discussions/interviews with several journalists (non-political) in the UK, who almost exclusively thought I'm a nutcase framing my understanding of the term also from that bigger POV... The way I see it is that having grown up in the GDR, I'd developed more of a sensitivity to these issues from an early age (hidden antenna on the balcony, illegally listening to RIAS Berlin radio, watching western TV only under headphones so that Stasi neighbors wouldn't hear...). In my experience, people who grew up in western countries and only ever knew clichés/propaganda of the East just often had (still have) a far too blue-eyed belief in their systems and their inherent supposed benevolence...