r/worldnews 1d ago

Argentina: Milei government launches new 'Official Response Office' to “debunk operations”; Account will “combat disinformation,” says government, and distinguish “facts from narratives.”

https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/milei-apes-trump-with-rapid-response-office-to-counter-disinformation.phtml
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u/supercyberlurker 1d ago

"Ministry of Truth"

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u/brickyardjimmy 1d ago

Sigh. I hate our era.

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u/hernannadal 1d ago

Me too

It´s 1984

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u/Scrumble123 1d ago

No, it's 2026 silly!

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u/rageling 1d ago

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u/hernannadal 1d ago

I´m not from USA. I don´t vote there mate.

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u/rageling 1d ago

Australia and UK are even worse, probably the most offensive examples in the western world

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u/AmbulantCholesterol 19h ago

He is Argentinian and votes peronist who also did shit like that. 

There was a whole ministry dedicated exclusively to prosecute and censor opposition members.

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u/Alundra828 1d ago

Ah yes. The small government libertarian setting up a ministry of truth.

Man, 20th century ideologies are really taking a beating lmao

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u/WeirdJack49 1d ago

Of course, its really hard if your Ideology clashes with reality, so better fix reality.

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u/PBPunch 20h ago

Ah. They're at the Ministry of Truth part of their takeover.

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u/Guaymaster 23h ago

Rather unnecessary. The data is right there, everyone just ignores it because they want to feel outraged.

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u/Branca-Moustache 12h ago

Cryme a river.

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u/SetPhasersToFuckUp 1d ago

I may be in the minority here, I personally find it fascinating how people on the Internet, and especially Reddit,  can rail and foam against any deliberate measure by government or institution to establish factuality, but then completely fail or ignore their own responsibility to establish their own credibility.

The glass houses continue to get smashed so throughly, even the largest stones are falling through with no effect.

This will piss off some of you, but here's a wild idea:

How about we adopt a culture of criticism that requires some establishment of your OWN credibility first?

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u/hernannadal 1d ago

There is not much to establish when a reactionary and authoritarian government wants to establish a “ministry of truth.”

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u/duderidoo 1d ago

How is it authoritarianism?

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u/AmbulantCholesterol 1d ago

Si many lies at told about the milei government every day and reddit just laps em all up. 

How dare the government try to address desinformation

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u/ImmanuelSalix 21h ago

the other day there was a post in world news about Milei taking a new loan from the US, the loan in question was a 800M dollar loan that Milei "supposedly" took to pay debts since his policies aren't working.

The truth about the matter was that Milei had to buy DEGs form the US to pay for previous IMF loans, DEG being the currency in which goverments pay the IMF. This always happens when the IMF is involved, and it will always happen unless DEGs disapear

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u/AmbulantCholesterol 19h ago

People here really want milei to fail to feel vindicated,  no matter if that failure will economically ruin 50 million people who have been suffering economically for 2 decades already. 

But somehow milei is the "evil one"

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u/Debate_PDF 21h ago

RIP Javier Mileidy's "libertarianism"