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  • I feel like 3 kinda comes with the territory of politics. The sort of people who mod political forums have more rigid ideas of what ideas should prevail in the discourse than someone modding a board for embedded electronics, not that that’s an inherently bad thing.

    It just feels worse because a greater portion of Lemmy is politics; here I’ve caught bans for being insufficiently pro-Kamala months after the election or not going along with a china bad circlejerk, but at reddit people catch bans for “John Brown did nothing wrong” or just posting footage from Palestine.




  • Amplifying shows of division in a country promotes the view that said country is flawed and weak, in this case along racial lines. China has plenty to gain by showing that.

    Exactly! So demoting those videos suggests that China is not using the algorithm to promote anti-american views.

    That seems entirely speculative. There are plenty of other reasons to hire them. Can you provide evidence for your claim?

    No, CIA agents don’t go around saying they’re working for media companies to disseminate propaganda, and media companies don’t broadcast that they take extra care to make sure their coverage lines up with the state department’s narratives.


  • If it’s being done in a manner that promotes Chinese narratives while demoting American narratives

    Spicy in this case means protests, police misbehavior, stuff the US wouldn’t want amplified. The big waves of censorship came in 2020 and 2022. You can search news articles from the time with lots of people wondering why they’re no longer getting that content in their FYPs and content creators getting <1/10th of the views. FB and reddit do the same thing.

    I don’t really see why not demoting BLM videos is not in the CCP’s interest; videos that make America seem racist seems entirely in the interest of an Anti-American country.

    Amplifying the videos that show America’s response to antiracist movements would make America look like the racist country it is. Demoting them conceals that.

    I also don’t see why hiring former American intelligence operatives demonstrates a pro-American stance, as their motivations for doing so could be to learn about American intelligence-gathering methods while promoting Chinese interests.

    CIA agents living in America who disseminate intelligence-gathering methods while promoting Chinese interests get charged with treason.

    They were hired to help identify and amplify US state department narratives, same reason CNN and Fox hires them.