175 sats \ 8 replies \ @didiplaywell 4h \ on: Poverty in Argentina soars to over 50% as Milei’s austerity measures hit hard econ
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It's, of course, a mix of manipulation and lies. If you know me from other comments on politics, I'm unabashedly pejorative when this kind of things come out. But this time I don't have adjectives, I'm genuinely horrified at this level of manipulation.
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Poverty didn't "soared to over 50%", it decreased from 56% last year to 52% up to this month. You know the gig: you can't derive conclusions from an isolated data point but from tendency. Taking isolated data is a predilect manipulation strategy from media. I know you know that but in this case I concede it's so obscene that one can't not think they would be playing games and that they have a limit. They don't. Never trust media.
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No last resort help has been cut whatsoever, anywhere. That's not even manipulation, it's straight up a lie. Continued and increased assistance is the reason the country as been steadily stabilizing and there has not been social unrest other than the protests organized by the syndicate mobs which are losing their feudal schemes.
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Never trust media. Ever.
Bias is one thing. Blatant manipulation and lies are more serious and should be dismissed.
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I honestly can not believe it. This is an orwellian level of manipulation of information. My first lecture is that they are desperate because, indeed, this is working, and they have interests that depend on Milei being proved wrong.
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journalist Matt Kennard talks about this exact thing. there's probably many journos who discuss this, but ive listened to couple of his podcast interviews
he started in Financial Times but is now with an independent org and his angle is that essentially corporate interests, eg the Gates Foundation when it comes to The Guardian, control the media and what can and can't be said and that one of the prime ways they do it is by what they leave out of a story
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Thanks for setting things straight. Good to have reports from boots on the ground.
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The Guardian's problem is not boots on the ground. They can spread lies and manipulation from wherever, Argentina, England, doesn't matter. The problem is the writer not the location
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At your service Sr, and thank you for bringing up the subject, we didn't saw it here yet and I presume they might have tried to limit demographic visibility to avoid immediate backlash from us, so that they can achieve the desired impact effect, which is the one that will shape public opinion the most even if latter proved false. It's a classic manipulation strategy, we know all of them here...
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I already didn’t trust the article when I saw that it’s from The Guardian. Thanks for setting the record straight
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Rent control in Argentina
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