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I realize the HK protests are what's in the news cycle rn but this is not new. The media is commonly deployed to discredit protests. Mexican media used to do this all the time to the Ayotzinapa protests, teachers unions, same during the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street... hello?? 
In 2015 bots were deployed and trended hashtag NarcosEnAyotzinapa smearing the Ayotzinapa students as "narcos" 🙄 that framing was common to attack the students. loquesigue.tv/el-guion-del-f…
2011: A guide to the smear campaign against Occupy Wall Street mediamatters.org/occupy-wall-st… nobody called it FakeNews™ back then
2013: Social media as a government propaganda tool in post-revolutionary Egypt firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/…
Anyway yeah.. not a new thing.
Anyway yeah.. not a new thing.
