How a Baseless, Right-Wing Social Media Panic Led to Dramatic Changes at the Census Bureau

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satanmat@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 3d

They want zero trust of anyone not them.
There’s no amount of credibility that can overcome that level of stupidity

Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 3d

While any and all efforts by right-wing election deniers to subvert election legitimacy are disgusting, I do think that differential privacy makes census data less useful (particularly for less populated areas) by making comparisons to historical data and future data less accurate.