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Re:China's state media buys Meta ads pushing Russia's line o... by 2OEH8eoCRo0 on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @11:04AM (#30615968)
> What is political propaganda is a very… political question.

Good thing that's not the issue here. The issue is where it comes from. It can be political- I don't like that it's foreign. I don't think freedom of speech means letting known foreign propaganda run hog wild on your platforms and control your information.

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Re:China's state media buys Meta ads pushing Russia's line o... by marricks on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @11:09AM (#30616052)
This thread was about any political propaganda on Facebook, but if you want to narrow down the discussion...

Some of us are old enough to remember when the US Intelligence community lied through NYTimes and NPR to drag us into the Iraq war. (Also the first Golf war. Also the Vietnam war.)

If you only care about foreign propaganda you’re still going to have a lot of evil done. And given that the US is the worlds last super power our own internal propaganda machine is pretty important.

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