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.

  • Spzi
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    51 year ago

    The first reply to that comment has more upvotes and debunks it.

    Yes, from our point of view. This is fine. My point is, compare to their point of view.

    All comments rectifying the lie got removed. Users from that instance see a whole other story. Only now that weird comment makes sense:

    Nobody actually has any argument against this except ad hominems, which is usually fairly telling.

    The OP article seems to talk about a similar situation, just in geopolitics, while we play in Lemmy. Two parties with very different narratives. One is heavily filtering and censoring, which allows people living in that bubble to honestly believe what they are being told. Because that’s all they see, their Big Brother takes care.

    • @bobman@unilem.org
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      31 year ago

      Sorry, I am unsure how this federation thing works but your explanation made it much clearer.