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Paperwall: Chinese websites posing as local news outlets target global audiences

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Re: Paperwall: Chinese websites posing as local news outlets target global audiences

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Post by vdaea »

I visited one of those sites, https://sevillatimes.com/ , and absolutely none of the articles posted there talk about the city, not even about the country where the city is in. So nobody would think that website is a local news website.

Also this article offers little to no proof that the Chinese government is behind these sites. They look more like a network of crypto spam. https://sevillatimes.com/category/presionesoltar/

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Post by krapht »

globalnode wrote: post #3

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1) whataboutism 2) citation needed 3) Even if both sides utilize propaganda, historically the scale of agitprop coming from authoritarian countries has been much greater. This is still newsworthy.

You can't even read most Western propaganda in China because the government goes to great lengths to censor narratives counter to offical views.

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Post by mistermann »

globalnode wrote: post #3

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That's what I was thinking to, except I was thinking of just plain old domestic "news" outlets, who could be judged on the very same attributes (and others, if one was able to be serious) mentioned in the article. At least in theory.

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Post by feedforward »

krapht wrote: post #5
globalnode wrote: post #3

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1) whataboutism 2) citation needed 3) Even if both sides utilize propaganda, historically the scale of agitprop coming from authoritarian countries has been much greater. This is still newsworthy. You can't even read most Western propaganda in China because the government goes to great lengths to censor narratives counter to offical views.

> You can't even read most Western propaganda in China because the government goes to great lengths to censor narratives counter to offical views.

Sure, because you can watch Russian news channels like RT in the EU, or read websites like rt.com - oh no, they're blocked.

Just like in the EU, where the government goes to great lengths to censor narratives counter to offical views, so does China.

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