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

Post by aurareturn » Thu, Feb 08, 2024, 3:03 AM UTC

Workaccount2 wrote: post #23

atlantic wrote: post #11

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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.

The difference is that American media isn't owned by the government. Chinese media can't tell the government to "fuck off" if they don't want to report something. In the US they can.

Post by wolverine876 » Thu, Feb 08, 2024, 5:24 AM UTC

pests wrote: post #80

wolverine876 wrote: post #79

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I don't quite follow what that means in context, so I'll answer as if it's asked in isolation: It's not the same at all. At least, IMHO: The volume of disinformation and misinformation is orders of magnitude greater than ever before, as is capability and quality: 1) Volume: The Internet reduces mass communication costs by orders of magnitude, of course, and similarly reduce wide-area communication costs, so people in…

So I first initially posted just trying to answer the "But what is the point of saying it's no different" question posted upthead. I do agree with you myself and think that your answer is a great answer to how it is in fact different in the first place.