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A US State Department report that accuses the Chinese government of expanding disinformation efforts is “in itself disinformation,” Beijing’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs claimed Saturday.

A US State Department report that accuses the Chinese government of expanding disinformation efforts is “in itself disinformation,” Beijing’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs claimed Saturday.

The ministry shot back after the State Department issued a striking report this week in which it accused the Chinese government of expanding efforts to control information and to disseminate propaganda and disinformation that promotes “digital authoritarianism” in China and around the world.

The US report, issued by the Global Engagement Center on Thursday, alleged that China spends billions of dollars a year on foreign information manipulation and warned that Chinese leader Xi Jinping had “significantly expanded” efforts to “shape the global information environment.”

It also underlined US concerns about China as a main military competitor and key rival in the battle over ideas and global disinformation.

  • barsoapEnglish
    21·
    9 months ago

    Indeed, Russia arrests people for things like saying that Crimea is Ukraine.

    …have you actually read the article? Are you aware that it’s talking about Russian suppression of journalism? That Ukraine got them out of Russian prison via prisoner exchanges?

    That is your response to a thread starting out with a post pointing out tankies not bothering to read the sources they quote? To quote a source you didn’t read?

    • goldenlocks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      33·
      9 months ago

      One of the most well-known and popular journalists in Ukraine was yesterday arrested by the officers of the Security Service of Ukraine. Unfortunately, the dramatic situation in our country is being used for “cleansing” of opponents, in gross violation of all legal and juridical procedures. Yuriy Tkachev is a journalist from Odessa, Ukraine, editor-in-chief of the online magazine https://timer-odessa.net/. He was very critical of the former and also the current Ukrainian government for its policies afterwards the Maidan, and especially regarding the “Odessa massacre of May 2, 2014” and “Shootings on the Maidan”, whose investigations were stalled, postponed for many years and until today not concluded, among others.

      ???

      • barsoapEnglish
        22·
        9 months ago

        You posted this link: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/here-are-stories-5-reporters-persecuted-ukraine-doing-their-job-past

        That’s what I responded to. I’ll have to add “quote the link right away” to my toolbox now, are you happy.

        As to Tkachev: He’s a known separatist sympathiser. Yes, Ukraine arrests collaborators. You’ll of course find plenty of Russian and Russia-influenced media claiming that every single one of them was a saint.

          • barsoapEnglish
            31·
            9 months ago

            You know very well that you’re lying, I fished the thing out of my browser history. You may fool others, but you can’t fool yourself.

              • barsoapEnglish
                31·
                9 months ago

                I can assure you you’re only saying this for the audience. Because you know what you did and gaslighting me won’t work.

                • goldenlocks@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  13·
                  9 months ago

                  I didn’t post the link, you’re just upset I proved you wrong with the link I provided. Very pathetic tactic by you.

                  • barsoapEnglish
                    11·
                    9 months ago

                    It’s been two days and your failure to read things before you quote them is still eating at you.

                    I applaud that, means you have a conscience left. Be aware, though, that doubling down will not make you save face, on the contrary. Owning up would be commendable, but slinking away is within the realm of the expected and ordinary, no hard feelings. Not even judgement, you have your internal and external pressures to deal with, I understand.

                    Toodeloo, if I ever need a place to live rent-free I’ll be sure to have a look at your head.