[Thread] Western media's finest propagandists are pulling out all the stops, trying to delegitimize the elections in Venezuela 🇻🇪. In this thread, I'll dissect their tactics, line by line, using this BBC article as an example, so you can understand how they do it.
First sentence in, and they have already poisoned the well, directly asserting that Nicolas Maduro "controls" the election, and that the whole process is "carefully curated." Second: They breathlessly repeat opposition claims of fraud, without informing readers that the
This is absollutely ludicrous. There are plenty of opposition-aligned media here. And the idea that a single person in Venezuela doesn't know that the opposition claims they won is ridiculous.
[Thread] Western media's finest propagandists are pulling out all the stops, trying to delegitimize the elections in Venezuela 🇻🇪.
In this thread, I'll dissect their tactics, line by line, using this BBC article as an example, so you can understand how they do it. First sentence in, and they have already poisoned the well, directly asserting that Nicolas Maduro "controls" the election, and that the whole process is "carefully curated."
Second: They breathlessly repeat opposition claims of fraud, without informing readers that the This is absollutely ludicrous. There are plenty of opposition-aligned media here.
And the idea that a single person in Venezuela doesn't know that the opposition claims they won is ridiculous.