Authoritarian rulers across the globe are adopting President Donald Trump’s favorite phrase to limit free speech, with prominent leaders or state media in at least 15 countries using his “fake news” line to denounce their critics, according to a POLITICO review.
By aligning themselves with Trump’s words, despots have been able to use the U.S. president as a shield for their attacks on press freedom and human rights, said Joel Simon, executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists.
“I’m seeing it more and more,” he said. Trump, he added, “is providing a context and framework for all sorts of authoritarian leaders—or democratic leaders and others who are dissatisfied or upset by critical media coverage—to undermine and discredit reporting.”
In February, for example, Syrian President Bashar Assad brushed off an Amnesty International report that some 13,000 people had been killed at one of his military prisons by saying, “You can forge anything these days, we are living in a fake news era.”
In the Philippines, President Rodrigo Duterte has complained of being “demonized” by “fake news.” Last month, with Trump laughing by his side, he called reporters “spies.”
Over the weekend, a state official in Myanmar attracted notice when he said, “There is no such thing as Rohingya. It is fake news,” referring to the persecuted ethnic group.
Those are hardly the only examples of Trump’s phrase being deployed internationally: In March, Chinese state media dismissed a prominent rights activist’s account of torture as “fake news.” And in May, the People’s Daily ran an op-ed with the headline, “Trump is right, fake news is the enemy, something China has known for years.”
Possibly the worst American export ever!
America, making the world a more shitty place since 2017.
America. The beacon of hope to the world. America will show the world what we do with authoritians, dictators and cons. We will show that our constitution will protect our belief in the rule of law and justice. Treason is the highest crime. It has been committed. America today is a country without her leaders nor president, but she is strong. And she will win. And those that have committed treason against the USA have made the worst decision of their lifetime. And that is reality.
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ReplyDeleteFucking LIER.
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/really-tempting-fate-internet-berates-trump-for-lock-her-up-chant-while-his-ex-aides-face-indictment/
Delete' the president is “really tempting fate with this ‘Lock HER up!’ chant.”
To the citizens of countries held hostage by communist dictators and little men? YOU people of North Korea, Russia, Syria, etc. STAND UP AND FIGHT FOR YOUR FREEEDOM. Fight for your human rights and resist evil. Revolt.
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ReplyDelete"First, by recognizing that all bets are off. Some residues of democracy still stand against plutocracy, white supremacy and toxic male power and the institutions of law have, to date, withstood some of the White House depredations, but many are the tests to which they have not yet been subjected as the mad autocrat-in-chief digs deeper into his bunker."
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/12/09/mentally-destroyed-trump-spending-days-laying-bed-watching-tv-tweeting.html
DeleteWell sometimes it is effing news, commercial every two minutes.
ReplyDeleteSorry, but that is what happens and so quit news so never hear real true news.
I bet trump is really proud of himself,dictators of the world love him.
ReplyDeleteHe can use that for a campaign ad,no other president in the the history of the US is more loved by tyrants than Donald traitor trump!
Make America a weep again.