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Guo Wengui is the main associate / bankroller of Steve Bannon. Behind stuff such as Hunter Biden's laptop, the "scientific" papers that proves that COVID19 is m

Guo Wengui is the main associate / bankroller of Steve Bannon. Behind stuff such as Hunter Biden's laptop, the "scientific" papers that proves that COVID19 is made in a lab, how Trump had the presidential election "stolen" by election fraud. How ARTE, which is a French/German public service TV station, can have him as a center-piece of their documentary is beyond me.

abacadaba 6y ago
What exactly are you disputing about Hunter's laptop? Or just mentioning that he helped bring this activity to light?
- throwaway4good 6y ago
  Just to be clear, we are talking about "Steve Bannon War Room Pandemic" and "The New Federal State of China". These people are not trustworthy at all. They can be entertaining though.
nsajko 6y ago
It seems like this is just an instance of a more general pattern observable in newspaper and TV coverage of a lot of things: given a lack of other sources of information (because of language barriers and lack of free press in this case) and widespread lack of skepticism when it comes to some things (here related to longstanding political issues, propaganda, etc.), journalists will embrace any available source of information without due care. They need the business, and verifying would require actual effort, possibly even investigation. At least I suppose that's how it goes. That's why I trust very little of what is written about, e.g., North Korea: it doesn't mean that everything that sucks and supposedly happened there is true just because the system there indeed sucks. I think everybody is maybe predisposed to believe whatever they read about a topic they don't know about themselves as long as it fits in their worldview, so journalists get a free pass doing less checking than Wikipedia editors as long as the "news" is believable.
- throwaway4good 6y ago
  It would be a bit like going to John Mcafee somewhere in Guatemala's jungle to get a proper view on how American business work. China is not exactly North Korea. There are plenty of people who can tell you what is going.

abacadaba 6y ago

What exactly are you disputing about Hunter's laptop? Or just mentioning that he helped bring this activity to light?

throwaway4good 6y ago
Just to be clear, we are talking about "Steve Bannon War Room Pandemic" and "The New Federal State of China". These people are not trustworthy at all. They can be entertaining though.

nsajko 6y ago

It seems like this is just an instance of a more general pattern observable in newspaper and TV coverage of a lot of things: given a lack of other sources of information (because of language barriers and lack of free press in this case) and widespread lack of skepticism when it comes to some things (here related to longstanding political issues, propaganda, etc.), journalists will embrace any available source of information without due care. They need the business, and verifying would require actual effort, possibly even investigation. At least I suppose that's how it goes. That's why I trust very little of what is written about, e.g., North Korea: it doesn't mean that everything that sucks and supposedly happened there is true just because the system there indeed sucks. I think everybody is maybe predisposed to believe whatever they read about a topic they don't know about themselves as long as it fits in their worldview, so journalists get a free pass doing less checking than Wikipedia editors as long as the "news" is believable.

throwaway4good 6y ago
It would be a bit like going to John Mcafee somewhere in Guatemala's jungle to get a proper view on how American business work. China is not exactly North Korea. There are plenty of people who can tell you what is going.