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

Post by atlantic » Wed, Feb 07, 2024, 2:28 PM UTC

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.

Post by Maken » Wed, Feb 07, 2024, 2:33 PM UTC

vdaea wrote: post #2

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/presione…

Post by feverzsj » Wed, Feb 07, 2024, 2:41 PM UTC

Post by neves » Wed, Feb 07, 2024, 2:50 PM UTC

atlantic wrote: post #11

krapht wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Depends how narrowly you define agitprop. If you consider everything that comes out of the American media/news conglomerates as propaganda, then it's orders of magnitude greater than the efforts of China or Russia.

Post by CrazyStat » Wed, Feb 07, 2024, 3:19 PM UTC