China increases spending 500% to influence America

Re:China increases spending 500% to influence America by estaseuropano on Monday May 17, 2021 @03:17PM (#27187169)

A. You only notice it when it is done badly, not when it works.

B. Repetition is everything. How many people watch RT and its wild mix of true stories (copy&pasted) and blatant propaganda and soak it up? Or vaccine conspiracies in mommy Facebook groups? Badly done propaganda repeated 1000x still works.

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Re:China increases spending 500% to influence America by d0mine on Monday May 17, 2021 @03:43PM (#27187494)

Could you link to examples of the copy-paste, blatant propaganda?

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Re:China increases spending 500% to influence America by estaseuropano on Monday May 17, 2021 @06:21PM (#27189128)

RT broadcasts plenty of true stories too, mostly from Reuters, AP or simply translations of European papers. The trick is to report wjatever comes up for topics you don't care about and mix in false or misleading narratives on issues where you do, e.g. in relation to Ukraine.

Rather than expect me, random stranger, to point out what is or isn't propaganda, see e.g. that the EU has an entire site largely debunking Russian propaganda as Russia uses it so frequently and effectively:

https://euvsdisinfo.eu/headlyin-and-deceptive-fiction/

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