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The CIA proving the necessity of China's Great Firewall once again (hexbear.net)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There was a meme passed around on Weibo, but it wasn't the same meme the west uses at all, and wasn't even censored to my knowledge. The west just made up a story whole cloth about Xi Jinping banning Winnie the Pooh and just expected people to never fact check it (they didn't.) I think it may have been a kind of "testing the waters" thing, they wanted to see how much they could get away with, they started pushing the Xinjiang stuff much more heavily shortly after, so it's likely they were seeing if people would believe an obvious and easily disprovable lie before moving onto their big lie.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago (2 children)

According to the KYM research the meme heavily predates 2019, however it does mention a 2019 "resurgence".

This resurgence is where the cia lies imo.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, they rarely make things up by themselves, they just take existing shitty ideas that serve their purposes and give them a megaphone. That way it gives them plausible deniability.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

As Adam Johnson of citations-needed sagely said:

"The atomic unit of propaganda is not lies, but emphasis"