New Eastern Outlook: Western Media Urges Public: Believe Our Lies, Not Your Own Eyes. 新東方觀：西方媒體敦促大眾：相信我們的謊言，而不是你自己的眼睛.

https://journal-neo.su/2024/10/02/western-media-urges-public-believe-our-lies-not-your-own-eyes/
https://archive.ph/Kz9jg

In a recent London Telegraph article titled, “The British travel bloggers ‘sugarcoating’ China’s Uyghur problem to the delight of Beijing,” readers are told that “more than one million Uyghurs are believed to be detained in re-education camps,” in Xinjiang and that Western tourists traveling to the region and seeing no evidence at all of this or other claims made by the Western media for years, are simply toeing the line of the Chinese government for clicks and cash….

Just as is the case with the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, the West’s inability to sell its version of reality to the global public has resulted in waves of increasingly tightened censorship across Western-controlled social media platforms. As the US government directs platforms like Meta and YouTube to purge accounts challenging US propaganda regarding Ukraine and Russia, it is only a matter of time before those challenging US propaganda regarding China are likewise silenced.

This applies not only to geopolitical commentators, but even apolitical travel vloggers.

There is an imperative now more than ever for the multipolar world to develop alternatives to platforms like YouTube and Meta (banned in Russia) and even X, where the global public can share information, grow their audiences, sustain their work, all out of the reach of growing Western censorship.

Smear pieces like that in the Telegraph are merely the first shots across the bow of what will certainly be an increasingly bigger and more desperate information war. It is important that governments and individuals alike across the multipolar world prepare for the many more shots to follow

《倫敦電訊報》最近發表了一篇題為“英國旅遊博主’粉飾’中國維吾爾問題以取悅北京”的文章，其中讀者被告知，“據信有超過一百萬維吾爾人被關押在新疆的再教育營中」前往該地區的西方遊客多年來沒有看到西方媒體提出的這一或其他說法的任何證據，他們只是為了點擊和現金而聽從中國政府的路線……

正如烏克蘭持續衝突的情況一樣，西方無法向全球公眾推銷其現實版本，導致西方控制的社交媒體平台上的審查日益嚴格。隨著美國政府指示 Meta 和 YouTube 等平台清除那些挑戰美國有關烏克蘭和俄羅斯宣傳的帳戶，那些挑戰美國有關中國宣傳的人同樣被沉默只是時間問題。

這不僅適用於地緣政治評論員，甚至適用於非政治的旅遊影片部落客。

現在，多極世界比以往任何時候都更有必要開發YouTube 和Meta（在俄羅斯被禁止）甚至X 等平台的替代品，全球公眾可以在其中共享資訊、擴大受眾群體、維持工作，所有這些都來自於西方審查制度的擴大。

像《電訊報》中的誹謗文章只是一場肯定會越來越大、越來越絕望的資訊戰的第一槍。重要的是，多極世界的政府和個人都必須為接下來的更多鏡頭做好準備