Never forget: a brazillian dude trolled the entire world posting fake videos of NK broadcasting of 2014 world coup and the Metro publish an article saying "NK propaganda shows country winning" and EVERY major western media replicate that shit. The dude who made this stunt is quite know here for trolling people.
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That's a pretty good troll actually lol.
Search for Cid Cidoso, he even received a letter from NK embassy in Brazil congratulating him for showing how dumb is the western media
Yea I was gonna say this is definitely some more made up BS from Radio Free Asia. Insane that you don’t have to make up stories about North Korea to make them look bad and ridiculous the real stuff is crazy enough.
They almost get there but instead they turn their brains off the moment they start to realize the contradictions.
Thought terminating contradictions
Oh yeah, you see these people go on about how North Koreans are so famished their markets have painted shelves and the population eat rats as their main source of protein but also have a vibrant hot dog market market and that it's undermining the Juche government.
Meanwhile in DPRK minor news segment: "Imperialist pigs are so propagandized they believe it is treason to eat hotdogs in DPRK"
If there is even a kernel of truth, and not totally made up, it is probably twisting something like "It would be patriotic to ration in case things turn hot with SK and the dictator Yoon Suk Yeol and shouldn't be relying on/importing imperialist food" then have a laugh at SK obsession with cheese and corn dogs(I have heard they are popular, not sure if that is true)
If anyone else has explanations on why Radio Free Asia sucks, I'd appreciate the extra counterpropaganda ammunition. But suffice it to say that even a couple comments in reddit when they actually read the article and saw the sources, didn't believe it, although they had to couch it in extremely liberal terms to prove their "not a tankie". Still, that proves how biased that source is even to diehard liberals.
Of course, they were vastly outnumbered by the people who believed this at face value, but that's Stormfront for you.
has explanations on why Radio Free Asia sucks
Prima facie. North Koreans do not speak a secret untranslatable language. If hot dogs were banned there would be documentation of it. This documentation would need to be mass disseminated so north Koreans know not to eat hot dogs. Surely a person telling a reporter that hot dogs were banned could also give them this document. CIA funding does not need to be shown to understand why RFA is garbage.
You'd think so, but mods in lemmy.world were apparently saying RFA is a legitimate source and are either independent, or they are part of the US government but it doesn't matter because they still have a good history of journalism and check their facts. Then banning everyone who disagreed.
I think they even used MFBC, which is hilarious once I read it. No failed fact checks for 5 years? How is that possible? And they report them as factual and left-leaning by taking two to three random stories? I thought everyone new RFA was biased as hell, but I shouldn't under estimate US propaganda I guess.
What's amazing is that many subreddits with block any posts from RFA. Of course, r/,worldnews isn't one of those.