• kescusay@lemmy.worldM
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      Please provide backing for claims that this story is fake and that Radio Free Asia is not credible.

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        The facts –

        • Radio Free Asia was involved in anti-vaxx campaigns in the Philippines

        • Radio Free Asia is associated by Radio Free Europe, a CIA operation to smear anti-USA regimes.

        • RFA staff are appointed by the government of the USA, known to be hostile to North Korea

        • Also, the story is just silly on the face of it and common sense says it’s made-up.

        • Lumidaub@feddit.org
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          Source for anti-vax claim?

          You do know where DW, the one source you provide, gets its money?

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                Brandolini’s law moment.

                You want me to “hunt down” the DW background? I’ll do the labour if you do, ok?

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                  I know the DW background, I live in the country they’re based in. I’m asking if you know the background of the source you use.

                  Also, still waiting for anti-vax source.

                  • 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚎𝚘𝚠@programming.dev
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                    On 11 May 2021, Fact-checker First Draft News found that Chinese- and Cantonese-language versions of Radio Free Asia (RFA) published anti-vaccine misinformation regarding the Chinese vaccines, particularly the ones manufactured by Sinopharm and Sinovac. The investigation found the RFA articles amplified misleading claims about the vaccine programs, and its stories were reprinted by popular tabloid newspapers to reinforce the anti-vaccine misinformation.

                    From Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Asia See the controversies section.

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                    The point made was probably that it is ironic you wold use them as a source for RFA being government-founded insinuating that makes them inherently biased.

                    He didn’t claim that tho? DW started being discussed here – https://lemmy.world/comment/14345095 – where it talks about Trump/Biden hiring/firing staff at US Agency for Global Media (USAGM).

                    Are you saying Trump/Biden did not in fact hire/fire staff at US Agency for Global Media (USAGM)?? Coz that’s the only reason you’d bring up DW’s credibility. Otherwise you’re just diverting.

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          Ah. So you don’t actually have any credible citations to back up your contentions about RFA, you just don’t like them saying true things that put North Korea (!) in a negative light.

          Weird to go to bat for an insane dictator, but hey, you do you.

          Or rather, I should say, you do you somewhere else. Not here. Bye.

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                The moderator here lacks integrity.

                psycho killer: kescusay

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                  Good thing I’m from the “safe instance”. Apparently two people with similar opinions from the “bad instance” constitutes brigading. If my eyes rolled any harder, they’d pop.

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                Every pro-North Korea post was coming from a group of accounts that all post to the same anti-Western and pro-fascism subs on .ml. I’ve banned the lot of them, and don’t feel the slightest twinge of remorse about it.