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  • suspicious_hyperlinkOPtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•How do I fact-check the news (step by step)?
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    10 days ago

    I can quote that Chinese friend of mine:

    “You know because recently I watched some news about Harris and Trump. Harris is like, you know, some political right democrat: we should respect the LGBT people or some lots of lots of stupid things, but I see the increasing prices and lots of people, they don’t have their jobs, so lots of lots of Americans - they support Trump now.”

    “You know, I think maybe Trump is the better choice for American people. If I were American, I would say “OK, Trump”, you know. I think the American people are not stupid. They don’t want to have low paid jobs and pay lots of money for some illegal immigrants, and some stupid, stupid robberies, you know. But they just wanna increase their salaries and have a good living environment. Of course, if I were American, I would support Trump too.”

  • suspicious_hyperlinkOPtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•How do I fact-check the news (step by step)?
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    13 days ago

    How would you know that?

    She admitted that herself that she doesn’t trust non-Chinese media a year ago. Also, it’s pretty clear given how clueless she was about that there’s not a single “Western propaganda” yet even within the same country the media outlets don’t have one single propaganda message. I told her about that and she was genuinely surprised to hear that, for instance, the western media are split on the Israel issue and there’s not a single fixed propaganda message. Or that not all the media support Trump and some are anti-Trump while others are pro-Trump. She thought all the western media are always supportive towards the currently ruling “western” leaders

    Can you really know that?

    Yes

    How and where have you first met this person?

    During a trip abroad. It was her first time abroad