Jiang analogizes Sinon to a fake-news reporter, making false witness a modern media problem rather than just an ancient military trick.
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Fake news
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...counterfeiter. And the other is basically, like, one of these, um, fake news reporters, right? Uh, yes?"
Key Notes
Students connect present-day fraud to internet scams, AI deepfakes, and fake news, which Jiang accepts as current equivalents.
Jiang asks the class to identify present-day equivalents of fortune tellers and students answer with fake news and agenda-driven media shaping public opinion.
A student says fake news and agenda-driven communication channels restrict imagination by trying to force outcomes to happen.
He argues universities lost legitimacy through long-running DEI politics and that mainstream media discredited itself so fully that Trump's 'fake news' attack now reads as accurate to him.
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"...counterfeiter. And the other is basically, like, one of these, um, fake news reporters, right? Uh, yes?"
"Did you know that 80 % of all criminal cases in Hai Dian are internet fraud?"
"...of fraud. Like it's literally not impossible to tell what is fake news. Right? It's really hard. Okay? And it's really hard now to..."
"finish divine comedy uh in the next two days if so in our present day what kind of people will be condemned to hell..."
"newspaper like in a way to move public opinion so that it fulfills the prophecy that the media wants yeah yeah yeah yes people..."
"you can call it fake news um people within the larger agenda trying to make something happen and then they're using all these channels..."
"necessarily good or bad right um right if i i i inject something with emotion and i try to push it push it push..."
"...syndrome, for a long, long time. So, when Trump says the fake news, they're literally the fake news now, you know, like, I don't..."
"...involved now in asia and in china yeah yes i think fake news so like media"
"...area where reality itself become fragmented and amplified simultaneously. Not just fake news, but entire emotion and psychological ecosystem, shaking how different groups perceive..."
"...Putin is manipulated by them, that, that totally, totally, totally fake, fake news."
"...not a believer in free speech. He called the news media fake news. And so I wrote the op -ed for American audience saying..."
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