At least the picture was taken IN CHINA this time. Not like when they “found” a letter from a Uyghur being held captive hidden in a a Nike shoe, and the shoes were made in Vietnam. Or like when they said they had a picture of Uyghur force labour and it was a picture of a factory in Brazil, complete with a Portuguese sign in the corner. And let’s not forget the infamous CIA operative tied to Guantanamo Bay who did an AMA on Reddit posing as a Uyghur defector, and of course Reddit lapped it up!

    • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.mlM
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      3 years ago

      This comment was removed by the mods BTW:

      Hello. How do you reconcile your prior career working with numerous human rights abusers in the US government, namely the Dept of Defence and the Guantanamo Bay concentration camp with posting this AMA?

      • Weilai Hope@lemmygrad.ml
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        3 years ago

        Yeah, if this CIA agent made the same post today it would be very different. I guess reddit really did purge all the sense out of it.

      • CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml
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        3 years ago

        They were still eating it up, her AMA was published after the allegations in Xinjiang came out. We were surprised at the time too that reddit didn’t buy into it.

        Their brains are like play doh, they will take whatever shape you impress on them. Don’t overestimate their capabilities lol

        • AgreeableLandscape☭@lemmygrad.mlOPM
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          3 years ago

          Yeah, the majority of people went along for quite a while.

          Mind you, it’s even worse now. We know from tools like removeddit that /r/worldnews now has a habit of removing any comments calling out the Western political narrative. Personal conspiracy theory: I suspect because they got some financial “incentives” from Reddit corporate, hell, maybe even some US three-letter agency. Is it that hard to imagine when we have documented cases of it happening in the past?