Internet/social media
Thursday 26 May 2022
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![Kim Dotcom]()
Kim Dotcom
Accused of online piracy by U.S.
“Over 14,000 civilians of Russian ethnicity in the Donbass were killed by US trained Ukrainian forces and the @PentagonPresSec openly boasts that they have armed and trained the Ukrainians for 8 YEARS.”
Read more...The 14,000 dead actually includes thousands of Ukraine and pro-Kremlin fighters. Only 3,400 were civilians, and not all were ethnic Russians. -
![Abdul Hadi bin Awang]()
Abdul Hadi bin Awang
Malaysian envoy to the Middle East
“[Ukrainian Jews] did not respond to the Zionist call for them to emigrate to the state of Israel … Thus, the war that took place wisely forced them to migrate to Israel.”
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![Russian Foreign Ministry]()
Russian Foreign Ministry
“The anti-Russian #fakenews factory is not slowing down. ... The newest low is passing off harmless military flares as phosphorus bombs.”
Read more...The munitions appear to be a different type of dangerous incendiary, though not white phosphorus, as a Ukrainian official suggested. -
![Xinhua news agency]()
Xinhua news agency
Chinese state press agency
“Manipulating these journalists to misrepresent China and stir up ideological bias against the country has once again revealed that so-called ‘press freedom’ touted by the Western media is just a handy tool to advance a narrow political agenda.”
Read more...The Chinese Communist Party projects its own centralized, manipulated and unfree media model onto the “Western media.” -
![Sputnik News Agency (China section)]()
Sputnik News Agency (China section)
“Biden: World War 3 because of Ukraine could be an alternative to sanctions against Russia.”
Read more...U.S. President was defending his decision to use sanctions, not floating possibility of war with Russia as an alternative. -
![Vladimir Putin]()
Vladimir Putin
President of Russia
“In our view what is now happening in Donbas is genocide.”
Read more...There has never been evidence of legal “genocide” against Ukraine’s population in Donbas. -
![Russian Federation]()
Russian Federation
Social media account of the Russian mission to the OSCE
“We call on the @OSCE_RfoM to assess the situation around RT DE and to remind Berlin of necessity to fulfill its obligations on freedom of the media and access to information.”
Read more...The German service of the Russian-state owned broadcaster RT was barred for not having a license. It’s Russia that routinely censors foreign and domestic media. -
![Chinese Foreign Ministry]()
Chinese Foreign Ministry
“Both parties [China and Russia] unanimously agreed to … jointly oppose attempts to politicize sports and stand together to support the success of the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing.”
Read more...China handed the Olympic torch to the Army officer who led bloody clashes with India, then issued a political statement with Russia as the games began. -
![Qin Gang]()
Qin Gang
China’s ambassador to the U.S.
“Chinese people can have wide access to information on the internet.”
Read more...Sure there is ‘wide access’ to China’s internet – if you don’t count thousands of blocked sites and smothering censorship. -
![Russian Embassy in U.S.]()
Russian Embassy in U.S.
Russian Foreign Ministry Twitter account
“FACT: It is the #USA that encouraged radical nationalist coup in #Kiev as a result of which the population of Crimea was threatened with extermination and voted for reunion with Russia.”
Read more...There was no “coup” in Kiev; in early 2014 the pro-Russian president fled ahead of an impeachment vote following months of protests. -
![Li Jingjing, CGTN reporter]()
Li Jingjing, CGTN reporter
"Well, I don't know whether you look(ed) into CGTN's other work, whether on television or social networks, because if you did, you would notice that I'm really not a key role."
Read more...Li obfuscates Chinese state media's promotion of sympathetic foreign social media influencers, as exposed by The New York Times. -
![Narratives trending on social media]()
Narratives trending on social media
The omicron variant is a hoax.
Read more...The highly mutated coronavirus variant is authenticated by scientists worldwide and has been confirmed in more than 20 countries. Omicron is not fake.
