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Re:How a fake network pushes pro-China propaganda by throwSZ99 on Thursday August 05, 2021 @04:21AM (#28071170)
Why should Westerners care about a "sprawling network of more than 350 fake social media profiles" when our own governments have been lying to us and spewing propaganda about almost everything of importance for DECADES? See my comment about GCHQ's JTRIG unit elsewhere on this page.

Western propaganda campaigns are often a prelude to war. And they usually deploy several orders of magnitude more assets than "350 fake social media profiles." Remember WMDs in Iraq, Libya and Gaddafi, babies in incubators? I have no interest in unquestioningly accepting the BBC's version of what's important. If we let our psycho warmongers start another war based on lies, millions will die on both sides.

See Thucydides Trap: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thucydides_Trap

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Re:How a fake network pushes pro-China propaganda by vajow46267 on Thursday August 05, 2021 @11:35AM (#28075191)
Such an excellent example of whataboutism! You have no interest in accepting any BBC version of events because you prefer comfortable confirmation bias from blogs and the twitterati?
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Re:How a fake network pushes pro-China propaganda by 0dayz on Thursday August 05, 2021 @05:31AM (#28071527)
Its quite peculiar you only post on topics that are about China.

Since you seem like a peace loving person then what do you think about what is happening in Xinjiang?

Also to debunk your obvious whataboutism.

First of wmd in Iraq has been confirmed before the Iraq War even happen.

Baby in incubator was something kuwait said to the us not the other way around.

Lastly never heard about wmd in Libya since they scrap it in 2003.

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Re:How a fake network pushes pro-China propaganda by krageon on Thursday August 05, 2021 @05:55AM (#28071650)
> wmd in Iraq has been confirmed

They never existed and it would frankly be an enormous stretch of the imagination to think intelligence services are so earth-shatteringly incompetent that they would not be aware of this fact.

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Re:How a fake network pushes pro-China propaganda by codewench on Thursday August 05, 2021 @02:35PM (#28077704)
Not coming down on either side of this, bit Iraq's use of chemical weapons against their Kurdish population [0] is well documented.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_chemical_weapons_program

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