Interesting that potential calls of Russian influence are to distract or deflect from Chinese influence.
China increases spending 500% to influence America
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
> to convince them that birds are real Wait, what's that referring to, is this a conspiracy theory that I haven't encountered yet?!?
It's a satirical movement ;) https://birdsarentreal.com
also https://reddit.com/r/BirdsArentReal
since you’re here, you should also learn about:
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#33Chinese propaganda is just so... Tone deaf. Give me a couple million dollars and a couple interns and I'm pretty sure I could do better than any of its existing organs. This isn't a particularly high bar: you could probably do better just by doing nothing.
I recall reading some study of employees at the Internet Research Agency (Russia’s most well-known “troll farm”). Some of these employees were Russian liberals and opposed to the regime, but hey, this was a paying job. Since they were not ideologically invested in their work and they knew that their siloviki backers had deep pockets and would keep throwing money at the agency regardless, they didn’t make any effort to sound very subtle or persuasive in their posting at all.
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#34Well it would be nice to see examples of the kinda of propaganda originating from China
Check out any thread on twitter from a respected medical researcher or scientist who provides any evidence that contradicts the prevailing "wet market" COVID origin theory.
I'm confused - are you saying it's propaganda to go against the wet market theory? Because the wet market theory is so childish - like saying the sun goes to sleep at night.
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#35Chinese propaganda is just so... Tone deaf. Give me a couple million dollars and a couple interns and I'm pretty sure I could do better than any of its existing organs. This isn't a particularly high bar: you could probably do better just by doing nothing.
What do you think are examples of Chinese propaganda? If it was good, I don't think we'd be able to tell.
I agree that good propaganda wouldn't be easily discernable as propaganda.
I'm skeptical that the same organizations that run the shitty Twitter fake accounts can simultaneously run actually effective programs. It'd be like Apple simultaneously being Apple and also running a shitty Etsy storefront that sells amateurish coffee cozies.
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#36Chinese propaganda is just so... Tone deaf. Give me a couple million dollars and a couple interns and I'm pretty sure I could do better than any of its existing organs. This isn't a particularly high bar: you could probably do better just by doing nothing.
What do you think are examples of Chinese propaganda? If it was good, I don't think we'd be able to tell.
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#37Increasingly, this pressure is happening in college campuses as well (not just in America) https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/world/australia/drew-pavl... https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/china-on-campus-doj-... https://thefederalist.com/2020/08/25/american-universities-a...
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#38Interesting that potential calls of Russian influence are to distract or deflect from Chinese influence.
Or Israel, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, etc.
Just use the data that the article does.
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#40To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting. – Sun Tzu, Art of War
Thinking in terms of coronavirus through the perspective of the Art of War (for all parties involved not directed at any country or person in particular) takes you down some interesting thought experiments