• FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
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    5 months ago

    I can’t say exactly the scope of Chinese influence on YT or FB/IG, but we know they’re 100% present. In fact, some time ago, CCP propaganda was flooding YT Shorts with machine generated content. We also know that FB have in the past been used for largescale campaigns to influence elections, they were fined 5 Billion USD by the FTC over the Cambridge Analytica scandal alone and pay similar fines frequently in Europe.

    Yes, these sorts of operations are pretty commonly carried out by all of the world powers, but that’s the highest form of whataboutism. It’s a problem now that negatively affects us, it’s not hypocritical to want to solve the problem. And China is #1 most problematic, in part because it’s a top world power and a dictatorship and also because of the scale and frequency of their attacks on democracy.

    China has been closing off it’s commercial sector, recently. It plans to import less to allow their local corporations to dominate markets.

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      5 months ago

      I can’t say exactly the scope of Chinese influence on YT or FB/IG

      We also know that FB have in the past been used for largescale campaigns to influence elections, they were fined 5 Billion USD by the FTC over the Cambridge Analytica scandal alone and pay similar fines frequently in Europe.

      And China is #1 most problematic, […] also because of the scale and frequency of their attacks on democracy.

      Thank you for proving exactly my point that you’re talking out of your ass, and you’re capable of contradicting yourself in one comment