Remembering to look for and ignore folks with that telltale indicator has made the fediverse so much more enjoyable.
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My issue is with the authoritarian governments and their tightly held control over their media. Recently I've felt that western news sources have also been very biased and I can't take anything coming from them completely straight. I've even switched sources from legacy media outlets to individual reporters and small boutique media outlets. (YouTubers) They have less ties with the establishment and while they are still biased, they have far more of an objective overview of the situations at hand.
This is different from China and Russia because they control a lot of their social media as well.The great fire wall being infamous. Also the language barrier definitely makes it more difficult to find people organically.
I am also less likely to believe stuff I hear from a country like russia which heavily suppresses freedom of speech and jails protestors as compared to France which doesn't do the same (or at least to that level).
Plus Putin and xi ping openly flaunt being dictators. There's too much smoke to be oblivious to something like this.
Also if you believe these men really care about genocide of their people in any terms other than how it affects their status and power, then you are quite mistaken. Because I can say this with a straight face, that no democratically elected leader/politician cares about such issues without worrying about the same, much less so authoritarian dictators.