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Information operations directed at Hong Kong

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1116 points whatok | 2 comments | 19 Aug 19 18:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.409s | source
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ryanchankh ◴[19 Aug 19 19:05 UTC] No.20740736[source]▶
HongKonger here. I have some friends in China posting similar anti-protest posts on WeChat social media. It's like the news they read has a completely different story than what it's being told in legitimate new sources. The problem of fake news does become very apparent, and I hope people in China can eventually gain awareness or at least start to question the validity of their news sources.
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rjf72 ◴[19 Aug 19 19:27 UTC] No.20740950[source]▶
Interesting. Are the images shared from this article suggesting that protesters are destroying property and engaging in other such behavior fake or somehow being taken out of context?
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1. JumpCrisscross ◴[19 Aug 19 19:39 UTC] No.20741058[source]▶
> Are the images shared from this article suggesting that protesters are destroying property and engaging in other such behavior fake or somehow being taken out of context?

Yes. Some protesters destroyed property. But the Hong Kong protests have been overwhelmingly peaceful.

Almost shockingly peaceful. Millions of people are mobilizing in cramped quarters. Very few cultures have the restraint to coördinate so massively with barely any mistakes.

Contrast this with the counter-protesters, in Hong Kong [1] and overseas [2]. Pro-Xi protesters are violent at about the same frequency as (if not higher than) Hong Kong's protesters. This despite there being far fewer pro-Xi protesters on the ground.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-49066982

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/30/world/australia/hong-kong...

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2. spectramax ◴[19 Aug 19 20:06 UTC] No.20741317[source]▶
I was educating myself of Kashmir protestors in Srinagar and found a stark contrast between Kashmiri protestors (with their ISIS banners: https://i.imgur.com/ib8OVE4.png) and HK protestors who are peaceful, educated in the issue and careful with sparking any kind of violence. It is amazing really and one of the most well organized large scale protests in the modern history of mankind.