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Re:Buying Influence: How China manipulates Facebook and Twitter by chroem- on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @03:26PM (#29654665)
If a preconceived belief will make you blind to genocide, what else will it make you blind to?
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Re:Buying Influence: How China manipulates Facebook and Twitter by pphysch on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @03:54PM (#29655044)
Might it make you uncritically believe anything the NYT and Washington establishment media claims? Even if their primary sources are extremely dubious?
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Re:Buying Influence: How China manipulates Facebook and Twitter by chroem- on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @04:01PM (#29655132)
My daily first-hand encounters with China's 50 cent army suggest it's more than just dubious claims. If anything, the NYT is late to the party.
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Re:Buying Influence: How China manipulates Facebook and Twitter by pphysch on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @04:31PM (#29655582)
Sorry, but this is just naïve. Washington/NY media invented "yellow journalism" long before the PRC or your scapegoat "wumao" bogeyman even existed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism#Hearst_in_Sa...

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Re:Buying Influence: How China manipulates Facebook and Twitter by chroem- on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @04:59PM (#29655980)
No, I mean I myself am bombarded by people who self-identify as wumao on the various internet forums I visit. I don't read the New York Times or other "mainstream" journalism outlets. The 50 cent army has become extremely pervasive and obnoxious with their off-topic spam over the last 12 months. It's very frustrating to use most of my usual forums because of just how intensely the wumaos spam them now.
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