US disinformation program targeting China, Russia, Iran, and other countries finally taken down by Facebook, Twitter, etc. after 5 years of operation.
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archive.phPosted Aug 25, 2022, 5:15 AM UTC
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archive.phThey only took down small and inconsequential accounts so they can claim they're unbiased, but in reality they let the important ones stay.
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The important ones such as NYT and Fox, as well as VOA and RFA
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Using "Pro-US influence campaign" instead of the more truthful term, US propaganda, reveals the NYT's own propaganda nature. Also, the article says China "undercuts" accusations of abuses when it should really be China debunks western lies! I don't believe for a minute that these social platforms do anything out of "fairness". It's more like the money ran out somewhere along the corrupt assembly line churning out US propaganda.
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100%
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Sounds like somebody is trying to get back in the Chinese market. Lolololol
The Americans are souring on FB maybe the Chinese will bite. Until they see Zuckerberg’s goblin face
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a rare victory. i'm surprised that the nyt of all things published this.
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The narrative in the Western newspapers & media seems to be shifting, and I am beginning to suspect that this is coming from big-business (private Equity & VC) that is not happy with the Cold War mentality.
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I extremely doubt they will care about that because the whole point of the cold war is the maintain US Hegemony and economic power. They have vested interest in maintaining that. If they let the US lose, they big business people will lose out too
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“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”
-Buddha
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Depends which side capitlistic force we're talking about, the capitalist aren't a single entity, there bound to be people intrested that's benifit more from globalization
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They've already lost, and that's not me being brash
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The wealthiest people on the planet don't care about maintaining any one country's hegemony. They care about maintaining their personal hegemony. As any parasite, if one host runs its course, they will jump to a new one.
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It's peanuts so that they can, say they are unbiased. Notice how they still use soft language about the "pro-US information campaign" instead of propaganda campaign or US state controlled media
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Nah this is what is referred to as "limited hangout" imo.
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The accounts behind the operation often posed as news outlets or took on the personas of people who didn’t exist
This is like basically half of all Reddit users lol
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And white people larping as Asians, blacks and other minorities online to skew the narrative.
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"None of the campaigns reached a large audience. Most of the posts and tweets received a “handful” of likes or retweets"
Nice roast at the end. US is incompetent, and the global south doesn't buy the narrative. But they keep letting the big fish go. Controlled opposition when posting 'exposes' like this.
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FB, Twitter, Reddit/worldnews & many others are still filled with tons of US propaganda fake accounts. They might taken down the older/ineffective operations.
Don't be fooled by this news.
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Hear me out, I think this is a bad thing. The west is currently a textbook case of the drug dealer getting high on his own supply, the drug of choice being propaganda in this case.
As current trends show, the younger the Chinese, the more patriotic; western propaganda is having the opposite effect on Chinese people. On the other hand, the vast majority of the west irrationally hate China. You can easily see it on reddit: it's impossible to objectively discuss and assess China's strengths and weaknesses in any mainstream sub. As policymakers retire and are replaced, the drugged up ignorants will take their place and make US policy towards China even more incoherent, and all the more easily countered.
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lol those fuckers are on reddit and youtube comment section too. they type in very similar ways. i doubt the chinese are doing this... willing to bet thats just american propaganda again... accusing others of what they are doing themselves.
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I love how they say they haven't been "studied", they haven't been studied by your own biased sources. Because there's a lot of studied propaganda such as Adrian Zenz.
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this really is an old trick in the book back from the cold war days where US and UK would use influencers to spin stories. organizations like Amnesty International and Radio Free Asia were prominent examples back in the days. but these days they do a better job a covering their tracks, making it seem like coming from legit news agencies or "independent experts".
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The accounts behind the operation often posed as news outlets or took on
the personas of people who didn’t exist, posting content in at least
seven languages, including Russian, Arabic and Urdu. The posts
criticized countries like Russia for engaging in “imperialist wars” in
Syria and Africa, while praising American aid efforts in Central Asia
and Iraq.
Too bad China doesn't have an operation able to post in 7 languages to counter the US-led West's narrative that China & Russia are evil and the West, especially the US, is all good.
China should strive to provide global media outlets that are able to provide an opposing view to American falsehoods. Buy up Spanish, Portuguese, English, Hindi, Arabic, Russian, Japanese, etc. news/media platforms to promote truth.
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CGTN Arabic is actually doing quite well and has a lot of popularity in the Arabic-speaking world.
This video of the 2019 military parade has over 4.2m views on YouTube
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Facebook + Twitter = U.S. Republicans.
So U.S. Republicans took down U.S. democrats propaganda.
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WION and China Focus(FLG), New Tang Dynasty (FLG) ?????
...on youtube. Pervasive and false information sites spouting 3 Gorges Dam collapse fantasy.
Tip of iceberg.
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Reported by NYT.
Now all we have to just need to take down the disinformation operation at NYT, Telegraph, BBC, CNN, MSN, WaPo, Epoch Times
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taken down aka decommissioned?
Exactly. All American media platforms are state propaganda. They only come down when the program is decommissioned to make room for a new one.
No doubt the only reason that stuff was taken down was to flood the sites with the latest fake news.