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0 pointsslovenlyrobot6y ago0 comments

It appears to be pretty much all western governments. at least 3 countries in the middle east appear to be pretty transparent, including surprisingly, Iran

The level of censorship around unquestionably authentic videos coming out of China has left me in a deep state of shock

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SpicyLemonZest6y ago

There is, unfortunately, no such thing as an unquestionably authentic video in the modern era. It’s not reasonable to assume that everything you see in a video on Twitter is true.

loriverkutya6y ago

You must be joking about Iran, based on pure math, it’s clear they are lying about the number.

jacquesm6y ago

Or, more likely: they don't actually know the real numbers. So you can treat what you do get from them as lower bounds, that's the bits they are sure about so they report them but events have possibly overtaken the authorities there to the point that their reporting is completely botched.

makomk6y ago

There's some evidence that the Iranian government knows the number of coronavirus deaths there is much higher than they're admitting to: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-51673053 Of course, even just the official number of deaths implies that coronavirus is a lot more widespread there than their numbers say.

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Simon_says6y ago

Maybe they're incompetent.

jonplackett6y ago

What videos are you referring to?

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