An 2-hours old account engaging in whataboutism with a misleadingly framed question. What is this?

Yes, unfortunately not (yet?) open source (like Soofi) but only open weight, but it sounds llike a good start.

Thanks for the link, I cross-posted.

In a related report from end of June, France uncovered a network of fake news sites managed by Chinese state media

… Viginum, France’s national agency for countering foreign digital interference, [at the Chinese propaganda network’s] centre is not loud propaganda, but an entire network of news portals that look like ordinary media outlets and focus mainly on how successful, innovative and essential to the world China supposedly is.

According to Viginum, the network consisted of 13 websites operated by China’s state broadcaster CGTN, or China Global Television Network. The portals published articles in English, French, Spanish and Vietnamese, presenting themselves as independent media outlets. In reality, they were part of a coordinated influence operation, which French authorities named Fawn Mianju.

This is not a story about isolated fake news. It is a story about how propaganda is increasingly being made to look like real journalism.

While Russian propaganda is often dominated by conflict, threat perception and confrontation, China’s goal is to build a positive image of itself. Freedom House describes this as a long-term strategy aimed at “telling China’s story well”. At its core is the image of China as a successful, trustworthy and indispensable partner.

Although the investigators conclude that Beijing’s malign activities weren’t successful in that case, the report shows how China’s state media tries is using AI trying to control the narrative by literally faking news sites that look like independent media.

There is no need for loud voices, militant slogans or obvious fake news. A website that resembles an ordinary news portal is enough. An article about China’s green transition or technological success is enough. And so is artificial intelligence that can adapt the same message for dozens of different target audiences within minutes.

The question is no longer only whether a news story is true or false. The question is who is telling stories about the world, what kinds of stories are being told, and whether the reader even notices that the “news” in front of them was not produced in an independent newsroom, but far away in Beijing …

The entire report makes a very informative read.

That’s the result at least in part of ongoing Russian propaganda to sow division.

Each of these incidents is a disaster for the affected individuals, but the number of hate crimes rose from 140 to 180. Using percentage (+30%) for such rare events is disingenuous.

Maybe he didn’t know that the hardest part of a three-day special military operation are the first few years.

I guess we ordinary Joes (and Jills) can’t understand what’s in the heads of the so-called world leaders like Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and others. Not because they are so bright (I doubt they even reach the average), but because they have been surrounding themselves for decades with yay sayers only, while everyone with even a slightly different opinion has long (been?) gone. They completely lost touch with the world in my opinion.

‘Rapists and murderers’ in Russian army rampage while home from front

Russian soldiers at home have been killing, maiming, raping and looting at record rates since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

The number of murders also appears to be increasing year-on-year. In 2025, the total sum was one-and-a-half times more than in 2024 and 16 times more than in the first year of the full-scale war.

Sexual violence committed by soldiers also climbed sharply. Between 2022 and 2025, courts reviewed 549 cases of rape and other forms of sexual assault. At least 312 involved minors and almost 250 involved young children under the age of 14. 2025 alone saw 248 cases, making it a record year.

Cases of robbery and looting, too, have seen distinct increases. 659 cases of robbery and armed robbery involving servicemen were filed from 2022 to the end of 2025. The real figure is likely to be many times higher, since looting in conflict zones and border regions rarely result in court cases or prosecutions.

The authors of the report caution that the real figures are likely to be far higher than the available data shows. Court records do not account for cases still being investigated and former soldiers are not included in the data … There is also almost no data available from the occupied territories of Ukraine, where Russian soldiers are likely to feel an even greater sense of impunity in pillaging and committing violent and sexual crimes.

What a hilarious kind of projection is this? Your own post history is nothing else than criticizing ‘the system you live in,’ so you’re the best example that you can criticize the system.

Whenever you criticize the Chinese system in China however, it gets immediately deleted and you disappear.

This whole post is gobbledygook.

Your comment amounts to nothing than whataboutism.

There is no misinformation here. Iran has a brutal regime that has been repressing its people for decades. The fact that Israel and other states committed similar war crimes doesn’t make Iran any better.

Sanchez’s hypocritical stance is obvious. It has nothing to do what others do.

Spain’s PM is a hypocritical politician who has no problem to collaborate with dictatorships like China and Iran, while at the same time not only criticizing his allies in the EU but even undermining European security.

Whataboutism? The US, Russia, North Korea, and many others are also committing terrible crimes.

But all this doesn’t heal Sanchez’s double standards regarding Iran while at the same time cooperating with dictatorships like China. This is about Spain and his PM.

The next whataboutism?

Sanchez is just trying to distract from corruption scandals involving close political allies, his wife, and his brother, followed by lost regional election in Spain of late, dozens of dead victims in train crashes, … he just fights for his job, he is a fundamentally immoral and hypocritical personality.

You don’t refer to my comment.

It is hypocritical to oppose one human rights violation like the war in Iran, but then collaborate with a dictatorship like China that is committing crimes against humanity on a large scale.

Then read my comment again. It is hypocritical to oppose one human rights violation like the war in Iran, but then collaborate with a dictatorship like China that is committing crimes against humanity on a large scale.

It is deeply hypocritical. You can’t collaborate with Iran, China, and other dictatorships and then speak of human rights. Sanchez seeks to distract from his own troubles - a series of corruption scandals, the recent train crashes, his Socialist party’s lost regional elections of late.

Sanchez is (rightfully) criticizing the US war on Iran citing human rights and the rule of law here while he has apparently no problem to actively seek cooperation with dictatorships, which often even undermines European security. For example, he has no problem cooperating with China in complete disregard of Beijing’s decades long rights violations and crimes against humanity. It’s deeply hypocritical.

More manufactured consent.

This is usually a standard response of tankies and other left-wing extremists if they don’t have any arguments, often followed by whataboutism (Iraq, Afghanistan, …).

Sanchez is a hypocritical politician who has no problem to collaborate with (and praises!) dictatorships like China and Iran, while at the same time not only criticizing his allies in the EU but even undermining European security.

I don’t support the US war against Iran, but Sanchez’s staged morality here is unbearable and disqualifies him as a democratic leader.

This news comes from an international NGO. Spain’s opposition and former ruling party may be as corrupt as the socialists, but pointing the finger to them now seems odd. The corruption scandals in Sanchez’s private and political environment are well known.

This is de facto a death sentence for the ‘crime’ of telling the truth.

This @schizoidman is posting exclusively pro-China/pro-Russia and anti-Western content with mostly low-quality content and misleading titles (and sometimes from questionable far left-wing or far right-wing sources, their last post has been deleted here just a few minutes ago if I got that right).

What is this here?