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Please provide backing for claims that this story is fake and that Radio Free Asia is not credible.
The facts –
Radio Free Asia was involved in anti-vaxx campaigns in the Philippines
Radio Free Asia is associated by Radio Free Europe, a CIA operation to smear anti-USA regimes.
RFA staff are appointed by the government of the USA, known to be hostile to North Korea
Also, the story is just silly on the face of it and common sense says it's made-up.
Source for anti-vax claim?
You do know where DW, the one source you provide, gets its money?
The comment thread from this point down is useless.
There, wasn't that easier than debating "whose job" it is to look up Wikipedia?
Buffalox already posted it.
? I'm not going to hunt down whatever you're referring to.
DW money?
Brandolini's law moment.
You want me to "hunt down" the DW background? I'll do the labour if you do, ok?
I know the DW background, I live in the country they're based in. I'm asking if you know the background of the source you use.
Also, still waiting for anti-vax source.
From Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Asia See the controversies section.
Dw is founded entirely by the German culture&media ministry: https://corporate.dw.com/de/wer-finanziert-die-deutsche-welle/a-279073
The point made was probably that it is ironic you wold use them as a source for RFA being government-founded insinuating that makes them inherently biased.
Now you go.
He didn't claim that tho? DW started being discussed here – https://lemmy.world/comment/14345095 – where it talks about Trump/Biden hiring/firing staff at US Agency for Global Media (USAGM).
Are you saying Trump/Biden did not in fact hire/fire staff at US Agency for Global Media (USAGM)?? Coz that's the only reason you'd bring up DW's credibility. Otherwise you're just diverting.
It was first mentioned as a reply to that comment. It was first being discussed here :https://feddit.org/comment/4011934
In the linked DW-article it says the administration hired/fired stuff. Which is arguably different then them doing it directly, although that is a bit pedantic I guess. My main point is that that alone does not makes RFA an unreliable source. I am using DW as an example because it exists in a similiar framework (directly appointed by a government administration) and yet is credible.
Look the the headline of the thread we are in. It begins KIM JONG-UN BANS HOTDOGS
Ah. So you don't actually have any credible citations to back up your contentions about RFA, you just don't like them saying true things that put North Korea (!) in a negative light.
Weird to go to bat for an insane dictator, but hey, you do you.
Or rather, I should say, you do you somewhere else. Not here. Bye.
They banned them for being a dedicated propaganda account for complying with their request. This shows two things:
psycho killer: kescusay
Good thing I'm from the "safe instance". Apparently two people with similar opinions from the "bad instance" constitutes brigading. If my eyes rolled any harder, they'd pop.
Every pro-North Korea post was coming from a group of accounts that all post to the same anti-Western and pro-fascism subs on .ml. I've banned the lot of them, and don't feel the slightest twinge of remorse about it.