纽约时报中文网 - 英文原版-英Campus Protests Give Russia China and Iran Fuel to Exploit US Divide
May 8, 2024 2 min 365 words
纽约时报这篇报道的主要内容是：美国最近的校园抗议活动引发的争议给俄罗斯中国和伊朗提供了弹药，让他们可以借此宣传美国社会存在严重分歧，并试图以此削弱美国在全球的影响力。报道援引了中国和俄罗斯官方媒体对美国校园抗议事件的报道和评论，并指出这些国家试图利用美国社会的分裂来达到自己的目的。 评论：纽约时报这篇报道有其一定的道理。中国和俄罗斯的确会利用美国社会的争议来宣传自己的观点和立场，这是一种常见的国际政治现象。但是，这篇报道也存在一定程度的偏见。首先，它忽略了中国和俄罗斯媒体报道美国校园抗议事件的事实基础，而是简单地将其归结为“利用美国社会的分裂”。其次，它暗示中国和俄罗斯的媒体是政府宣传工具，而没有考虑这些媒体也可能是为了满足受众对国际新闻的关注而进行报道。最后，报道暗示中国和俄罗斯试图利用美国社会的分裂来削弱美国在全球的影响力，但并没有提供直接的证据来支持这一观点。
An article on a fake online news outlet that Meta has linked to Russia’s information operations attributed the clashes unfolding on American college campuses to the failures of the Biden administration. A newspaper controlled by the Communist Party of China said the police crackdowns exposed the “double standards and hypocrisy” in the United States when it comes to free speech.
On X, a spokesman for Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Nasser Kanaani, posted a cartoon of the police arresting a young protester in the guise of the Statue of Liberty. “Imprisonment of #freedom in the U.S.A.,” he wrote.
As protests over the war in Gaza have spread across the United States, Russia, China and Iran have seized on them to score geopolitical points abroad and stoke tensions within the United States, according to researchers who have identified both overt and covert efforts by the countries to amplify the protests since they began.
There is little evidence — at least so far — that the countries have provided material or organizational support to the protests, the way Russia recruited unwitting Black Lives Matter protesters to stage rallies before the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections.
Nonetheless, the campaigns have portrayed the United States as a country rived by social and political turmoil. In the past two weeks alone, state media in Russia, China and Iran have produced nearly 400 articles in English about the protests, according to NewsGuard, an organization that tracks misinformation online. The countries have also unleashed a wave of content through inauthentic accounts or bots on social media platforms like X and Telegram or websites created, in Russia’s case, to mimic Western news organizations.
“It’s a wound that our adversaries are going to try to spread salt on because they can,” said Darren Linvill, a director of the Media Forensics Hub at Clemson University, which has identified campaigns by all three countries. “The more we fight amongst ourselves, the easier their life is and the more they can get away with.”