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Fact Checking: Misinformation Spread Quickly on Chinese-language Social Media after Lebanon’s Pager and Walkie-Talkie Explosions in September (tfc-taiwan.org.tw)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The pager and walkie-talkie explosions that occurred in Lebanon on September 17 and 18 resulted in serious casualties and shocked the world. False information quickly circulated over social media among Chinese language users. [...] For Chinese nationalists, the explosions provided an opportunity to justify the concerns about Western products and demonstrate that only Chinese-made electronic equipment can provide consumer safety.

Several themes emerged from the Chinese disinformation pieces:

The scenes that falsely depicted the explosions
The incorrect allegation that Taiwan, Israel, Japan, and the United States were part of a conspiracy network
Concerns that iPhones could also explode
The claim that wealthy Middle Eastern countries have quickly abandoned Western-made electronic devices in favor of Chinese products, particularly those made by Huawei

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

propagandists feel the need to create such a flimsy, self-congratulatory lie so that mainland citizens might feel something resembling pride about their crumbling dictatorship.

Are you talking about china or usa?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

There's the expected whataboutism.