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[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you want to talk about the protests leading up to Tienanmen, you're going to need to know more than that "Tank Man Photo Exists"

Most don't even realize it's a video and he just gets led away by bystanders not run over

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What's really disturbing is the number of AI generated remakes of the video currently all over YouTube. The degree to which that one event has been subjected to distortion and manipulation by social media is really jaw dropping.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 week ago

What do they show?