cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5649906

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/china-cold-war-2669160202/

Nice to see your hard earned tax dollars are going towards such a fabulous cause. Meanwhile I've heard it said that Chinese and Russian bots exploit divisions in the Western world by talking about things like poverty, homelessness, gun violence, racism and sexism. Well maybe you should start doing something about those issues to stop them being used as fuel for alleged foreign propaganda efforts hmmm?

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    I've been saying this for years, since 2015 at least. If foreign misinformation campaigns can work by picking at the scabs maybe it would be better to address the valid concerns and conditions they are critiquing? There was no KGB FSB agent meeting with Hillary and saying "You vill not be campaign in the Mee-shee-gan, da?" She fucked that up on her own.

    If some giant magma monster was rampaging through the Midwest and China pointed that out and then some farmer shows up with with the charred remains of his corn and kids you can't tell him he is swallowing "Chinese propaganda" when he demands to do something about the goddamn monster.