meanwhile: in China
misinformation has spread in China that the Texa has officially declared war to secede from the US.
Posts with the hashtag #TexasDeclaresAStateOfWar have been viewed and shared thousands of times on the popular social network Sina Weibo. Some posts have been from a user with millions of followers
journalist Wenhao, who specialises in Chinese online disinformation, posted on X that the "biggest US related news on China's internet for the past few days is Texas governor declaring war with the federal government, which did not happen in reality".
"Netizens are cheering for what they call America's self destruction," the post added.
@ecksmc Kinda makes you wonder what sorts of things we hear, over here, about other countries, that the people from other countries are like "Whaaaaat?"
@ecksmc I have seen english-language news articles where people have used phrases like "Texas has declared war on the US federal government".
I dunno, maybe they learned it from us?
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