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.

  • @goldenlocks
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    01 year 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.

    ???

    • @[email protected]
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      1 year 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.

      • @goldenlocks
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        -41 year ago

        Looks like your own propaganda. Must have had it up on another tab.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year 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.

          • @goldenlocks
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            -31 year ago

            Nice try, but I didn’t post that link.

            • @[email protected]
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              21 year 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
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                -21 year 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.

                • @[email protected]
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                  01 year 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.

                  • @goldenlocks
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                    -11 year ago

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

                    Says the person that got triggered and went to comment on my other posts. Your mistake is still lingering I see.