• citrussy_capybara [ze/hir]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    most of this contains great examples of how ‘freedom of speech’ is a feel-lie to hide the government manipulation of information

    but to point out “the collusion between CIA and the press” and at the end of the domestic media focus section with:

    The US media have reported that financial tycoon George Soros used hundreds of millions of dollars to bribe hundreds of networks related to the US media between 2016 and 2020 to build his own media network and thus achieve public opinion manipulation.

    is awful, needs to be taken out or fixed, undermines all the good point with an out of place reference to antisemitic conspiracy theories based on ‘the US media, who we’ve established work with the CIA to lie and construct narratives, has said this”

    needs at least to be reworded to make a larger point about how billionaires buy up media to spread messages and add in rupert murdoch and others doing the same thing and not single out one person, spreading (((conspiracy)))

    a shame because there are otherwise great points before that

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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      4 months ago

      The idea that US oligarchs like Soros, Koch, and Murdoch buy up media to push their agenda isn’t a conspiracy theory. It’s pretty well documented. The fact that Soros happens to be Jewish is completely irrelevant here. I agree that Soros shouldn’t be singled out, but I can see why he’s notable from Chinese perspective given that he’s the one who’s been most active trying to do political interference in China.