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The world s autocratic countries (russia china turkey etc) don’t rely on fabricated news, they rely on hiding the truth and placing a biased spin on it. They kn

The world s autocratic countries (russia china turkey etc) don’t rely on fabricated news, they rely on hiding the truth and placing a biased spin on it. They know that outright lies will actually harm their image.

asjw 7y ago
And killing journalists, and imprisoning political opponents, and controlling the media and, yes, straight up lying, because no other voice can be heard, so it's impossible to publicly fact check their lies.
YarickR2 7y ago
Any evidence to your words ? Or this is just a lie you made up to spread your FUD ?
- buboard 7y ago
  What FUD? Here s an article about typical media strategies https://theconversation.com/four-things-you-need-to-know-about-russian-media-manipulation-strategies-94307 https://theconversation.com/four-things-you-need-to-know-abo... Such countries will usually fabricate stories by implanting evidence or killing witnesses, not just by repeating them
richmarr 7y ago
Autocratic countries like... ones that ignore and undermine their own judicial system and appoint family members to positions of power?
jcranberry 7y ago
That's a few autocratic countries. Such a statement is obviously not true in general. For starters you have dictatorships which have been based upon absurd and shameless lies. North Korea currently, Haiti under Papa Doc, Turkmenistan under Niyazov. In addition I'd imagine hiding news is the first line of defense, but if that fails none of these autocratic governments are not above lying (and I'd bet you find the dictators of those countries have lied many times when it suited them, if evidence is available).
- buboard 7y ago
  I m talking about specifically “fake news” , lies that are generally obvious yet for emotional reasons persistent What s different about autocrats is that they will unscrupulously plant evidence and kill everyone who knows

asjw 7y ago

And killing journalists, and imprisoning political opponents, and controlling the media and, yes, straight up lying, because no other voice can be heard, so it's impossible to publicly fact check their lies.

YarickR2 7y ago

Any evidence to your words ? Or this is just a lie you made up to spread your FUD ?

buboard 7y ago
What FUD? Here s an article about typical media strategies https://theconversation.com/four-things-you-need-to-know-about-russian-media-manipulation-strategies-94307 https://theconversation.com/four-things-you-need-to-know-abo... Such countries will usually fabricate stories by implanting evidence or killing witnesses, not just by repeating them

richmarr 7y ago

Autocratic countries like... ones that ignore and undermine their own judicial system and appoint family members to positions of power?

jcranberry 7y ago

That's a few autocratic countries. Such a statement is obviously not true in general. For starters you have dictatorships which have been based upon absurd and shameless lies. North Korea currently, Haiti under Papa Doc, Turkmenistan under Niyazov. In addition I'd imagine hiding news is the first line of defense, but if that fails none of these autocratic governments are not above lying (and I'd bet you find the dictators of those countries have lied many times when it suited them, if evidence is available).

buboard 7y ago
I m talking about specifically “fake news” , lies that are generally obvious yet for emotional reasons persistent What s different about autocrats is that they will unscrupulously plant evidence and kill everyone who knows