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Ram_The_Manparts ,
@Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net avatar

Okay? And?

mholiv ,
  1. The poster who submitted this has some sort of pro South China Morning Post (SCMP) agenda. So this post is likely some sort of attempt to normalize that newspaper.
  2. I personally want Russia to lose their imperialist war and I want Trump to lose his election, but even with my biases this article is a huge stretch.
Alsephina OP ,

The poster who submitted this has some sort of pro South China Morning Post (SCMP) agenda. So this post is likely some sort of attempt to normalize that newspaper.

Lmfao

mholiv ,

People can look at your post history and judge for themselves.

Alsephina OP , (edited )

I see you’re new to news outlets.

stevedidwhat_infosec ,

Lotta talk from someone using big words like complacency without knowing what they mean.

Your account is almost a week old, and posts pretty much only news articles from this site, along a few other random sites with seemingly no favoritism towards any of them except for this one and not even commenting up until a day ago.

But okay, I guess you can try and gaslight everyone here into thinking that’s normal behavior somehow.

Let me make a lemmy account to only repost links to news sites all day every day for… fun?

Sure.

Alsephina OP ,

account is almost a week old

not even commenting up until a day ago

Friend, I think you’re replying to the wrong person lmao

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/7e9b7371-4243-4a2e-8527-03aa8f5bfc10.png

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/e3ff0f92-0c31-4348-b0f1-1a0e74ebc5b8.png

Also, this user made 2 posts in 8 months lol

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stevedidwhat_infosec ,

All I can see from your account now is 6d ago for posts and 1d ago from comments. Probably because you’re posting or commenting in communities that have been defederated…

I don’t post as frequently as you because I’m not a walking reflector service for my favorite national news agency but go off

Alsephina OP ,

Have you considered checking in with an eye doctor

stevedidwhat_infosec ,

Bro you’re upvoting your own comments with your 4 alts like 😂😂 You don’t even try to obfuscate the fact, you just do it instinctively to try and self soothe

Everyone here can smell you from a mile away, you’re not fooling anyone.

Alsephina OP ,

Good point, @mholiv alt

stevedidwhat_infosec ,

And now actively spreading disinfo to confuse and muddy waters

Classic.

Alsephina OP ,

Just like your 2 alts! How fitting.

stevedidwhat_infosec ,

No u dude.

No u. No take backs either so now you’re really fuckt.

We can stop whenever you’d like and you can go back to posting every article from that site now. See you in the next thread!

Alsephina OP ,

No thanks lol I generally block kids on social media

davel ,
@davel@lemmy.ml avatar

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mholiv , (edited )

Exactly. They get all huffy and upset and defensive, but in the end the record speaks for itself.

No matter what they say or rant about their post history shows the truth.

Fun fact. They could prove me wrong by not favoring one specific site going forward, but they won’t I suspect.

stevedidwhat_infosec ,

I’m not gonna plant my feet in any one position because there really isn’t enough info to convict per se, but I fully agree that this account is odd in their posting nature and it definitely seems like they’ve got a hard on for this site specifically but apparently not all of their “content” is showing up for me for some reason.

I’m guessing it’s because it’s in defederated communities or something like that.

mholiv ,

Fair. I edited my last comment in this chain to be more fair. It’s a trend I noticed on Lemmy though. Very specific people are extremely enthusiastic about very specific sites. I’ve seen it for RT quite a bit as well.

stevedidwhat_infosec ,

I’ve noticed the same thing specifically around Chinese news sites and Singapore sites.

Not saying anything is a grand conspiracy, just noting odd things for the rest of the public to either cast aside as crazy talk or pick up on and share their own findings alongside.

Alsephina OP ,

My sibling in christ I replied to you with an “Lmfao”. Is that too “huffy and upset and defensive” for you?

Arcturus ,

I think they’re new to people posting things in general lmao

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Alsephina OP , (edited )

There is a point to be made though about reading too many things from the same outlet ig, even if it’s generally reliable.

They could’ve just said that instead of being weirdly condescending about it, when not being an active user themselves.

zephyreks ,

If you’re going to condemn a source, please provide evidence of cases where they have misreported in the past on similar issues.

For example, you could point to the New York Times’ article by Anat Schwartz as evidence that the New York Times has pro-Israel bias.

mholiv ,

i am not commenting on the source. Just pointing out a strange pattern of behavior that I think should be noted. If look around on Lemmy you will see certain accounts that are weirdly into very specific sites.

If you look at the original posters account history you will see the same “very into a specific site” pattern.

freagle ,

Are you saying that people should be reading EVERY news site and then post what they see from any and all sites that make good content? How do you recommend they do that labor, use a news aggregator? Are you daft? This is how news aggregation works!!! Some individuals with real lives become deep consumers of a few specific news sources, select the best content they find and submit to aggregators like Lemmy. You and I benefit from 2 dozen of these people, each with only a handful of news sites they can review in their limited time and because there’s 2 dozen of them we get news from 30 - 50 news sites in our feed.

Hegar ,
@Hegar@kbin.social avatar

Lol that's like asking for evidence that the daily mail is a tabloid.

NYT is just a mouthpiece of the US empire, but SCMP is the official forum for china to troll english language speakers.

coffeebiscuit ,

mediabiasfactcheck.com/south-china-morning-post/

zephyreks ,

Really? Citing MBFC? What are you going to do next, ask an LLM what it thinks?

If you want to judge your media consumption off of some guy with no pictures online, no public interviews, and a “strong grasp of the scientific process” gained through (supposedly) a physiology degree and half a communications degree, be my guest. Just don’t launder it’s reliability here.

coffeebiscuit ,

… ok.

adfontesmedia.com/south-china-morning-post-bias-a…

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_China_Morning_Post

Some old Reddit discussion. reddit.com/…/is_south_china_morning_post_still_le…

Please take this with you.

zephyreks ,

Ad Fontes reports SCMP’s reliability as 41.56, which is higher than the Washington Post (39.42) and on par with the New York Times (42.00), Al Jazeera (41.55), and USA Today (41.27). Ad Fontes ranks it lower than institutions like the BBC (44.72) or NPR (43.49) as well as newswire services like Reuters (45.62), AFP (47.15), and Associated Press (45.64).

Your other references are Wikipedia and Reddit. Are you sure you don’t want to cite what Google Gemini says as well?

Edit: for reference, Ad Fontes puts FOX News at a 35.49, MSNBC at a 34.39, and the New York Post at a 32.98.

NovaPrime ,
@NovaPrime@lemmy.ml avatar

Bit of a stretch, no?

ogmios ,
@ogmios@sh.itjust.works avatar

Par for the course.

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