They're doing it right out in the open
And still no American media company will get that scary "state media" disclaimer on Twitter/YouTube.
Remember when back in September Twitter labeled some random French media as Russian-State affiliated because their name is Ruptures, you know slightly similar to RTs Ruptly?
Well, they are still labeled as such. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
some random French media
Ruptures : le journal progressiste radicalement eurocritique
Le blog Confusionnisme.info juge en revanche que sa ligne est ambiguë et cultive « un nationalisme bon teint mâtiné de protectionnisme et de républicanisme »
Ruptures seems bad, is it bad? French chapos, help me out.
I have no clue on what their editorial line is, I just remembered the case from back when Twitter started implementing these tags.
It very well could be that their general line could seem as supporting Russia’s interests or whatever and that is what triggered Twitter, but that doesn’t make one a state affiliated media like RT either.
And apparently it seems Twitter didn’t even feel the need to respond to their appeals or care even to explain why they were labeled like that in the first place.
Oh sorry, it does look like I'm implicitly supporting twitter marking them with a Scarlet Letter, so let me clarify that I don't support that.
I just did some quick research into the journal and saw that they've been accused of being "nationalist progressives" eg populist nonsense, but I don't speak French so I was hoping someone might have more insight than a 5 minute Duckduckgo.
journal progressiste radicalement eurocritique
I don't know them, but this just means they identify as "radically progressive "and critical of the EU, all of which sounds good.
You have the freedom to post whatever you like (per an EULA that's functionally impossible to comply with) and we have the right to add "This Guy Fucks Babies" stamps on your posts while flagging everyone who watches your video to an FBI Watchlist and spamming them with Che Guevara T-shirt email ads.
This is the freedom that America provides.
In communist China, party members are embedded into news organizations to ensure adherence to the party line.
Damn and weren't those journalists who were killed in the leaked Collateral Murder video Reuters journalists?
I just went on an hour long research dive into these media operations and the people who run them. What absolutely vile den of snakes and lizards. I love the blatant double speak surrounding VOA too. "No it's not propaganda, look at our charter! It says we're not allowed to do that!" Then you read the history of the organization and realize it's been used/pressured into propaganda by every administration since its conception - and that's before any leftist critique of ideology lol.
You might not like it, but this is what perfect freedom looks like.
QAnon supporters, who believe a CIA program to manipulate the media still exists and that the mainstream media are responsible for spreading fake news, claim press reports they do not like are part of Operation Mockingbird.[1][9]
