• @[email protected]M
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      -44 months ago

      Please provide backing for claims that this story is fake and that Radio Free Asia is not credible.

      • @[email protected]
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        104 months ago

        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.

        • @[email protected]
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          74 months ago

          Source for anti-vax claim?

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

              • @[email protected]
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                -84 months ago

                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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                  64 months ago

                  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.

                  • 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.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    14 months ago

                    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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          44 months ago

          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.