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Re:Buying Influence: How China manipulates Facebook and Twitter by justicezyx on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @05:40PM (#29656427)
> there's really no excuse for what China is doing to Uyghurs atm.

First make sure everyone agrees upon what happened to Uyghurs first.

China is closed to foreign examination in the sense that they do not want to show all the details. But BBC and western media decide that that's a legitimate excuse to allow manipulative reporting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS8EceIa1MQ&t=101s

You are not going to get people to be honest, if you try to force that with lies.

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Re:Buying Influence: How China manipulates Facebook and Twitter by mthoms on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @10:01PM (#29658177)
Does your evidence of manipulated reporting consist entirely of adjusting the saturation of an image or is there anything more substantial?

Just look at the skin of the human being in both photos - the less saturated one looks 100% more natural (unless the guy actually has orange skin). If anything the over-saturated image is more misleading than the other, more dull, image. But neither are particularly egregious.

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