American $300m a year propaganda machine defanged by social media

 USA's propaganda machine is also turning against the USA. Its credibility has been taken to the cleaners by social media. All that funding is going nowhere and backfiring.

Backfiring because of the ability of social media to counter the lies and providing the truth with evidence. When lies can be countered, the USA better stop fabricating lies that will do them little good. This is no longer a world that the MSM and the world of propaganda can get away with any fake news generated freely by the USA's propaganda machine.

Take issues about China as an example. All the bad mouthing about China, its infrastructure, its suffering people, its inferior racial stock, its human rights record have all been countered, not by China itself officially, but by foreign visitors to China and uploading videos of what they actually saw. A picture or video is worth a thousand words.

China knew that countering the lies generated by the world's biggest propaganda machine of US$300 million a year is not easy and a mountain to climb, and for years refused to engage, knowing it is difficult to convince the world with the USA and the West dominating the dissemination of information.

Moreover, China is a tad less efficient in scope and volume regarding write-ups for an English audience globally, as the more effective write ups are basically by Chinese educated academics and in Chinese that Westerners do not and never read. Not to say that China's media Journalists lack the mastery of the English language. Far from it, as we can glean from reading well researched articles, listening to enlightened interviews and watching well documented videos on Global Times, People's Daily and CGTN in English.

The Chinese are also not using English in their discourse at major meetings and summits, preferring to do so in Chinese. Xi Jinping speaks English and German and Mandarin of course, but he seldom uses English, his second language, when he speaks. That is showing patriotism and never shying away from being Chinese.

Anonymous