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Social media has a very good ratio of information spreading versus effort required. It’s also why it’s a popular thing for misinformation and influence campaigns.

In contrast, if a government agency wants to make a website for this, it probably needs a proposal, budget request, approval by a commission, a bidding process, and other bureaucatic procedures put in place by politicians that wanted to lower spending.

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And we got news like this.

Addition: Difficult, cumbersome, and bureaucratic to do doesn’t mean they shouldn’t do it.

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How hard is it to hire some 23 year old who just graduated in IT and ask them to do it? Static webpages aren’t hard, drag learned how to make them in high school.

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Governments are probably a bit hesitant to go that route after a few pages like that got hacked and ended up full of Russian propaganda.

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