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TIL About the Jeju Massacre, where South Korean forces wiped out 10 percent of the island of Jeju for the crime of organizing a General Strike (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/til@lemmy.ca
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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (5 children)

All media serves the funders and context from which it comes. There is no escaping this, only understanding and compensating

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    how do you compensate when you believe that all media is biased and all the news is fake?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Biased and fake are entirely different things but it's not easy. The general idea is to get sources outside of your geopolitical context to compare against the sources that have the same biases you were raised with

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Well the biases I have growing up are complicated. I don't do well with confrontation and prefer more peaceful paths of diplomacy, and do not like any acts of violence.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Well if you are a native English speaker almost all the media is controlled by the US government in one way or another. Try the outlets that you were always told are propaganda to start

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