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#ResistEthiopia: Resistance Flourishes in Darkness
1. For the past eleven months, the pro-#Ethiopia camp has been screaming bloody murder regarding the virtually complete media blackout of Pro-#Ethiopian voices.
#ResistEthiopia: Resistance Flourishes in Darkness
1. For the past eleven months, the pro-#Ethiopia camp has been screaming bloody murder regarding the virtually complete media blackout of Pro-#Ethiopian voices.
The media blackout and the negative coverage of #Ethiopia by the MSM has resulted in a cascading effect, leading astray not only ordinary citizens but also academicians who you think would know better.
For this thread, demonstrating the the media blackout, I have collaborated with another exceptionally talented Ethiopian, @Samriethio!
2/ We sifted through news coverage of the conflict accessed through Google. Based on the assumption that journalists would uphold sacred principles of their profession & show both sides of the story, the expectated outcome was an approximately equal representation of both sides.
If these were your expectations too, you would be sorely disappointed.
According to our analysis, news articles were extremely more likely to mention #TPLF compared with #GOE, which tells you a lot about the narratives these articles are more likely to push.
According to our analysis, news articles were extremely more likely to mention #TPLF compared with #GOE, which tells you a lot about the narratives these articles are more likely to push.
3/ During our analysis we also observed a disturbing propensity to refer to the #GOE as @AbiyAhmedAli! Ever heard of the US referred as Biden or the UK as Johnson? The closest you get to this is the designation, the Biden Adminstartion.
This is not and idle slip by the likes @decalnwalsh or @simonmarks, it is a racist dog whistle used to insinuate that the PM is another rogue African dictator, unaccountable to even the people of Ethiopia!
When we compare the coverage the MSM afforded @AbiyAhmedAli compared with #TPLF, a similar picture emerges. Apart from a couple of bumps which were due to increment in negative coverage, the coverage was very low compared with #TPLF.
4/We also compared the media coverage of #Amhara and #Afar regions over time and expected to see a significant bump in coverage following the withdrawal of the ENDF from Tigray and the start of TPLF agression towards Amhara and Afar.
Yet the same bias still persists! Amharas and Afars keep getting massacred and yet the news remained firmly fixated on #Tigray, even if there has not been active fighting in Tigray for more than three months!
5/ When you look at the pictures showing the breakdown by continents, you would be shocked by the fact how the MSM have been successful in making sure the Ethiopian side of the story never reaches ordinary Americans and Europeans.
Based on the information fed to them by the MSM,people all over the world, believe with religious fervor the 'Tigray Genocide' narrative fabricated by #TPLF and peddled by their enablers in the media.
These graphs tell a sad story. The media's is not being deceived by the #TPLF! The media is not only complicit but also actively taking part in the deception. Paraphrasing @nntaleb, if you flip a coin a hundred times and get 99 heads in a row; the coin is rigged!
We #Ethiopians know fully well that the game is rigged against our country. And yet we will keep on fighting back because we are Ethiopians and we only have one country to call home!
Ethiopia shall prevail,not because it can but because it must!
#ResistEthiopia
#DigitalAdwa
Ethiopia shall prevail,not because it can but because it must!
#ResistEthiopia
#DigitalAdwa
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