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gloflo 7 hours ago

I doubt it is about data. It should be about digital heroin and psychological warfare.

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jamestimmins 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah it's simply an incredibly powerful way to influence US youth in ways that are favorable to the CCP.

I don't understand how or why this is hard for people to grasp? It's no different than Radio Free Europe being secretly funded by the CIA, except it's even more powerful.

	▲	jkaplowitz 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Radio Free Europe was covertly funded by the CIA into the 1970s, but your comment should say “having been” instead of “being”, because its current funding is not a secret: that comes from the US Agency for Global Media, an openly acknowledged part of the US government.