11/9/2023 0 Comments Nguy vu morning news![]() Viet Fact Check, a project by the Progressive Vietnamese American Organization (PIVOT), aims to “empower Vietnamese Americans with fact-checked, source-verified analysis and rebuttals in English and Vietnamese to combat the onslaught of misinformation that is circulating widely in our Vietnamese American communities.” The spread of misinformation is also prevalent in other immigrant diasporas in the country, such as the Cuban, Venezuelan, South African and Indian communities, to name a few.īattle against inaccurate information: Oliver highlighted Viet Fact Check and The Interpreter, two Vietnamese American organizations currently taking the misinformation problem among their community head-on. ![]() The King Radio YouTube channel has been taken down from the platform due to Oliver’s comments, with some videos being reuploaded, according to Bao Cali Today. “ While Alex Jones has been removed from YouTube for spreading misinformation,” Oliver said, “ King Radio is still going strong on the platform despite the fact you just heard him say ‘masks are killing people,’ which clearly violates YouTube’s ban on claims that wearing a mask is dangerous.” ![]() ![]() The British American host even went on to compare Nguy Vu to well-known American conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who was banned from YouTube and other social media platforms in 2018, VOX reported. Oliver highlighted Nguy Vu, the host of “King Radio,” who delivers misleading information about mask mandates, Joe Biden, conspiracy theories and more on his show. “Many turn to YouTube for their news, with certain channels on in their houses 24/7.” Amen.“ For many older Vietnamese Americans, there is such a vacuum of credible news channels that broadcast in Vietnamese,” he said. May there be peace in Prax's future household. I can only hope this is a start of the cleanup needed for these social media sites, especially with the non-english channels and sources. It also doesn't help that people like my parents have such poor media literacy despite being so proud of being able to "see through" the communist propaganda they managed to escape from. I think we know this was delusional, but you cannot underestimate the bad blood between the two countries that would lead to some folks eating this up. Thank goodness.Īs mentioned in the article, the Vietnamese community was the only group among asians in America who favoured Trump over Biden (with some fools waving the Viet south's former flag during the Jan 6 insurrection), and most of it is due to the perception that Trump and the GOP would be strong against China. My brother did notice a lull in the household from my dad no longer having on the endless rantings and ravings of this guy, and this was why. One source told BuzzFeed News that her mom spent over $700 on a beauty cream ordered from his channel, and that she was horrified to google the brand on her mother’s cream and find zero results. The KingRadio is known to sell Viagra, medications, and beauty creams that he said are made by his cousin to his YouTube audience, available to order through a phone number displayed on a banner in his videos. The KingRadio also directed his fans to “smash out her teeth and attack her relatives” after she posted a vlog questioning his business practices in January. The YouTubers sprang to action, calling Nấm an “undercover communist” set out to undermine Trump and America and launched a petition, signed by thousands, to get her deported from the US. The backlash began after she wrote a Facebook post critiquing former president Donald Trump’s promotion of malaria medication to treat COVID-19. Mẹ Nấm, a human rights activist and Vietnamese blogger known as Mother Mushroom, who was granted asylum in the US in 2018 after she was jailed in Vietnam for speaking out against the Vietnamese government, has been targeted by far-right Vietnamese YouTubers for questioning their videos.
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