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Viral Fake Footage Of “Chinese” Atrocities Shows The Power Of Narrative Spin
It’s very easy to get people to believe they are viewing video evidence of Chinese abuses. All you have to do is show them footage of one thing and tell them it’s something else. https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/viral-fake-footage-of-chinese-atrocities-shows-the-power-of-narrative-spin-487587fc6dd7
It’s very easy to get people to believe they are viewing video evidence of Chinese abuses. All you have to do is show them footage of one thing and tell them it’s something else. https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/viral-fake-footage-of-chinese-atrocities-shows-the-power-of-narrative-spin-487587fc6dd7
The odious right-wing influencer @stillgray recently posted a video of a man being brutalized by an unseen tormenter which he captioned “Chinese communism”. https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1291463623101956096?s=20
"But many people credulously shared the video around, because anti-China sentiment has exploded over the last two years with the help of careful narrative management by the western political/media class."
https://twitter.com/Louis_Allday/status/1290305297731538944?s=20
https://twitter.com/Louis_Allday/status/1290305297731538944?s=20
This video footage re-emerges periodically, like last year when it was shared by virulent China critic Arslan Hidayat, who claimed the footage showed the Chinese government’s persecution of a Uyghur Muslim. https://twitter.com/arslan_hidayat/status/1184513569662083072?s=20
Except it’s not from China, and the man being tormented is not a Uyghur Muslim. https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1185354154841001984?s=20
It turns out it’s very easy to get people to believe they are viewing irrefutable evidence of Chinese abuses. All you have to do is show them video footage of one thing and tell them it’s something else.
Over the last few weeks I’ve seen three different verifiably fake videos depicting “Chinese” abuses which people have been frantically spamming around eager to show evidence of Beijing’s malfeasance, like this one: https://twitter.com/MaajidNawaz/status/1284585213650186240?s=20
After this wildly viral video surfaced, my Twitter mentions were saturated with brainwashed Chinagaters tagging me insisting that I retract my position of rigorous skepticism toward western narratives about what’s happening in Xinjiang.
Only problem? That’s not Xinjiang, and those aren’t Uyghur Muslims. https://twitter.com/Garou_Hidalgo/status/1285994495239245831?s=20
My favorite was this one shared by the account “Uyghur Genocide” on Twitter: https://twitter.com/auighur/status/1272360467479085056?s=20
Except that’s not China, and that’s not a Uyghur Muslim. It’s a BDSM fetish video from Taiwan, those are consenting adults at a private location, and the allegation has long been discredited.
https://tfc-taiwan.org.tw/articles/379
https://tfc-taiwan.org.tw/articles/379
They literally see what they’re told to see. The narrative overrides the actual raw data that they are taking in with their own eyes.
More good stuff in the article.
