From a comment I made earlier, I thought it would be good to make a post about it for visibility.

The video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41e44JwMY6Y&list=PL6UESfsY6DFtN4rbXh3WYI8OEI78Lt9vi&index=6

The BBC article: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-57780023.amp?s=09

Now, one might assume that the Youtuber is lying, and this is definitely what any lib coming across the Youtube video would think, especially if they look up the article and notice the image is unaltered.

Think again, the BBC has since changed it back to the unaltered version, this shit is infuriating because,

  1. anyone seeing this video would think the youtuber is lying, and

  2. whoever read the article at first has already been lied to.

Here is the article before the image was changed to the unaltered version (Likely in “response” to the Youtubers video, BBC obv. doesn’t mention or apologize for this blatant disinformation): http://web.archive.org/web/20210711221132/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-57780023

I initially (although only for a while since I am critical towards my sources) thought that the youtuber had lied after looking up the BBC article, shame on me … But thank fuck for archive.org.

Another example (Credit: @qwename)

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202102/1215710.shtml

BBC News posted Chinese and English versions of a video titled “How everyday life has changed in Wuhan” on Youtube. Although the two versions have the same content, netizens found that a filter was added to the English version that made the footage more greyish.

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I think you all are being too harsh. The British brainpan cannot comprehend sunny weather so BBC are desaturating the images so that their audience can wrap their heads around it.

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So it’s yellow filter for Latin America and grey filter for China, while Northwest gets full saturation. Very subtle change but incredibly annoying.

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I hope they just go crazy with the filters with some new countries, like make everything in Mali have a swirl effect or something.

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Bro this is nothing compared to Associated Press. Here’s apparently a pic they posted on this years day of return of Hong Kong, vs the one from the local liberals:

Same group of people and same place and time. I remember some Western article complained recently about China’s social media coloring New Yorks orange weather on purpose… lmao

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A classic for anyone who thinks the BBC is any better than a tabloid.

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British State-Sponsored Media

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Thats BSS not BBC , though more fitting name

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How does “British Bourgeois Capitalists” sound?

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Much Better

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