The best opinion is the one formed with the most information. If learning something new about the facts of the case changes someone's reaction to it, it is probably for the better.
If this were not the case, democracies would work best when the public was not taught to read. :-) Can we really argue that the public is too stupid to be trusted with the ability to communicate? If that is the idea we should admit, at least, that what is being considered inverts every principle of the free world.
The best opinion is formed from complete information. More information is strictly harmful if it’s driven by one-sided bad faith distribution networks.
Having a foreign government control the narratives that reach mass audiences is not at all the same as trusting the public with the ability to communicate.
Maybe it would help if we distilled the abstract ideas ("foreign influence on the narrative ") to the specific event (current administration wanted to hide the human cost of Israeli tactics / the existence of a spoiler candidate).
Imagine how you would feel if the administration was more Saudi-aligned and wanted to shut down HN because you were doing too good a job of sharing those details! I support all the truth getting out.
Ok great. Could you share the _whole truth_ then please? Could you discuss rocket attacks from Hezbollah? Massive tunnel networks and arms networks? Funding, military training, and arms coordination from Iran? The geopolitical implications of a weak Israel? The complicated connections with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?
You’re just spouting one cherry picked narrative of an incredibly messy situation.
It's ironic that you would talk about the whole truth, while not mentioning the rocket attacks on Hezbollah, or who exactly built those tunnel networks or supplied those arms. The geopolitical implications of Israel's existence at all. How Israel got there in the first place. At least you called it "Russia's invasion of Ukraine" though, rather than "America's proxy invasion of Russia in Ukraine"
Like the fact it's been continuously invaded and mass-murdered by Israel since Israel began? They call it "mowing the lawn". You mow the lawn periodically so the grass doesn't get too tall.
If this were not the case, democracies would work best when the public was not taught to read. :-) Can we really argue that the public is too stupid to be trusted with the ability to communicate? If that is the idea we should admit, at least, that what is being considered inverts every principle of the free world.