Uh huh. Looked them up where, MB/FC? Quoting myself:

The first step is to understand the media, which Media Bias/Fact Check and the Ad Fontes Media* are never going to teach you. The only people who are taught it are those who get degrees in marketing, public relations, political science, history, and journalism; and even then only some of them.

The new post-Trump/“post-truth” media literacy curricula won’t teach it to you either, because it was paid for and crafted by the US military-industrial complex: New Media Literacy Standards Aim to Combat ‘Truth Decay’.

This week, the RAND Corporation released a new set of media literacy standards designed to support schools in this task.

The standards are part of RAND’s ongoing project on “truth decay”: a phenomenon that RAND researchers describe as “the diminishing role that facts, data, and analysis play in our political and civic discourse.”

None of it is a secret, though, and it can be learned.

• Noam Chomsky - The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine
• Propaganda model
• Edward Bernays
• Walter Lippmann
• Council on Foreign Relations
• Powell Memorandum
• The Trilateral Commission’s report, The Crisis of Democracy

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*I’ve criticized MBFC & Ad Fontes before:

• https://lemmy.ml/post/12705767/8913172
• https://lemmy.ml/post/13566156/9605612

You have this one photo, onto which you project a lifetime of cold war propaganda.

It may surprise you to learn that tank man was standing in the way of tanks leaving the square and going back to base. After climbing on to the tank and talking with the crew, he eventually left the area with some other civilians.
Video of exactly that: https://xcancel.com/carlzha/status/1134582926325104641

• The Tian’anmen Square ‘Massacre’: The West’s Most Persuasive, Most Pervasive Lie.
• Columbia Journalism Review: The Myth of Tiananmen
• 1989 Tian’anmen Square riots
• A Note on the Tiananmen Protests
• Images from Tiananmen 1989 the West never shows (NSFW / CW: violence and death)
• How psy-ops warriors fooled me about Tiananmen Square: a warning

That’s one I never even heard of until now! I’m not surprised that the CIA-backed Falun Gong’s Epoch Times covered it: China Develops Helmets for Soldiers With Self-Destruct Button: Report. You can just make up any zany thing about the US’s designated baddies, and people will buy it.

You you think it be:

How it actually be:

Largely because:

Don’t use the always has been meme for things that have not always been.

What a dog’s breakfast. You’re so fully and completely propagandized that you probably don’t even know you’re being propagandized. If you think Lemmy has bots & bad actors, why don’t you go back to the safety of Reddit’s echo chamber of CIA bots?

What reason do you have to think they are? Who has a motive to suddenly flood RedNote with fake Americans?

Plenty of people also still believe the secret Chinese police stations bullshit.

Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Misinformation

Truths you find inconvenient are not misinformation, reporter.

🏅 It’s fuckin’ whac-a-mole with this slop.

This is the funniest thing about it all. ByteDance is mostly an American company with American & Singaporean executives, and the service is run on Oracle cloud services within the United States.

The arguer advances the controversial position, but when challenged, insists that only the more modest position is being advanced. Upon retreating to the motte, the arguer may claim that the bailey has not been refuted (because the critic refused to attack the motte) or that the critic is unreasonable (by equating an attack on the bailey with an attack on the motte).

This is quality condensed gish gallop. Eglin Air Force Base would be proud.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism_(book)

The reason you believe all this nonsense is because you’ve uncritically accepted the propaganda that Western governments and Western corporate media have been flooding you with your entire life.

I try to point people toward developing real media literacy.

• Wall Street Journal: Mueller Doesn’t Find Trump Campaign Conspired With Russia
• Jacobin: Democrats and Mainstream Media Were the Real Kremlin Assets
• Washington Post: FEC fines DNC, Clinton for violating rules in funding Steele dossier
• UC Santa Barbara: President Donald J. Trump to Withdraw the United States from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty
• The Hill: Trump administration pulls out of Open Skies treaty with Russia
• CBC: How successive U.S. administrations resisted arming Ukraine Yet since the 2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia, the Obama, Trump and Biden administrations have all, to some degree, delayed or balked at sending lethal aid to Ukraine
• Jeff Gerth at Columbia Journalism Review on Russiagate: Editor’s Note | Part one | Part two | Part three | Part four
• Matt Taibbi: WMD, Part II: CIA “Cooked The Intelligence” To Hide That Russia Favored Clinton, Not Trump In 2016
• Chris Hedges: Why Russiagate Won’t Go Away

A torrent of Western chauvinist trolls does seem inevitable, if my experience as an Lemmy mod is any indication.

Everything I know about Gross Domestic Product I learned from Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg.