Buying Influence: How China manipulates Facebook and Twitter

Re:Buying Influence: How China manipulates Facebook and Twitter by hutzlibu on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @03:51PM (#29655000)

I do not read anything, close of a statement "cambodian genocide is just us propaganda"

What I read is:

"What filters through to the American public is a seriously distorted version of the evidence available, emphasizing alleged Khmer Rouge atrocities and downplaying or ignoring the crucial U.S. role, direct and indirect, in the torment that Cambodia has suffered"

a much more nuanced statement.

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Re:Buying Influence: How China manipulates Facebook and Twitter by chroem- on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @04:03PM (#29655146)

Are we reading the same quote? He is calling reporting about the genocide propaganda.

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Re:Buying Influence: How China manipulates Facebook and Twitter by hutzlibu on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @04:09PM (#29655243)

I am reading, he is calling some reporting possible propaganda.

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Re:Buying Influence: How China manipulates Facebook and Twitter by skavi on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @05:54PM (#29656549)

the best propaganda is the correct truth, no?

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Re:Buying Influence: How China manipulates Facebook and Twitter by BrazzVuvuzela on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @07:02PM (#29657079)

Correct, but Chomsky wanted people to believe it was lies.

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Re:Buying Influence: How China manipulates Facebook and Twitter by hutzlibu on Thursday December 23, 2021 @03:17AM (#29659781)

Because he believed so, too. The US would have had incentive to paint the picture worse of the communist side doings after they left the area in a mess. After the pentagon papers and everything, that would have been a plausible scenario - it just happened to be real murder on big scale, even unseen in sowjet russia before.

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