China Fakes 488M Social Media Posts a Year: Study

Re:China Fakes 488M Social Media Posts a Year: Study by pmarreck on Friday May 20, 2016 @08:48AM (#11737311)

So the solution to a combination of human nature and an unfortunate profit motive in the Western news is... Lying?

I mean, we already know that China is both governmentally AND culturally OK with pervasive deceit:

http://shanghaiist.com/2015/11/19/study_says_china_least_hon...

https://thelinguafranca.wordpress.com/2008/03/25/do-the-chin...

http://fortune.com/2015/12/14/china-fake-economic-data/

Lying is, and should be, universally reviled.

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Re:China Fakes 488M Social Media Posts a Year: Study by optforfon on Friday May 20, 2016 @09:21AM (#11737514)

I think they'd characterize click-bait sensationalism as effectively lying and their censorship as a means to dampen it

I'm not condoning their censorship. Yeah, obviously it leads to the government twisting the truth to toot it's own horn. On the political side of things its terrible

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