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Trump's "fake news" takes off around the world
https://www.politico.com/story/2…
Syrian President Bashar Assad brushed off an Amnesty International report that some 13,000 people had been killed at one of his military prisons by saying, “You can forge anything these days, we are living in a fake news era.”
In the Philippines, President Rodrigo Duterte has complained of being “demonized” by “fake news.” Last month, with Trump laughing by his side, he called reporters “spies.”
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro complained to RT, the Russian propaganda outlet, that the world media had “spread lots of false versions, lots of lies” about his country, adding, “This is what we call 'fake news' today, isn't it?”
Over the weekend, a state official in Myanmar attracted notice when he said, “There is no such thing as Rohingya. It is fake news,” referring to the persecuted ethnic group.
In March, Chinese state media dismissed a prominent rights activist’s account of torture as “fake news.” And in May, the People’s Daily ran an op-ed with the headline, “Trump is right, fake news is the enemy, something China has known for years.”
- I note with some amusement it's all wannabe-dictators who agree with him.Continuity
- what a legacy to leave behind, the man who invented alternative factsfadein11
- #DentureDonaldGuyFawkes
- This is important and fucked up. Trump has given an out to dictatorial behavior in the early stages of the information age.colin_s
- Until the media re-establishes a presence in the social hierarchy dingbats like this will be able to wear tinfoil hats and come off as plausiblecolin_s
- We need HD footage of Trump fucking up. Something he won't be able to shake off.jagara
- Pick a day and day.BH26
- "Takes off"? Hilarious. China has been pumping fake news for the last 70 years and Venzuela for 20. It's news, but it's not new. Not.********