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Information operations directed at Hong Kong

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1116 points whatok | 1 comments | 19 Aug 19 18:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.296s | 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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1. mycall ◴[20 Aug 19 04:05 UTC] No.20743748[source]▶
Disinformation is very popular right now. It is happening everywhere. Humans have much power with social media, it is getting abused. The good news is that Facebook and Twitter are finding ways to slow it down. Maybe that technology can be imported into WeChat somehow.