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Silverwhitemango t1_jaa04on wrote

Reply to comment by Vanished_Elephant in Macron flies to Africa to counter waning French influence by HRJafael

Thanks for this long comment.

I watched the video too and this was one of the times where Shirvan (CaspianReport) seemed to be really biased and did not reference his sources.

Asides from the above comment, the video also omitted the fact that 2 of the nations in the CFA, Guinea-Bisseau & Equatorial Guinea, aren't even former French colonies yet they still chose to be involved in the CFA franc currency.

Or even omit the fact that nations like Mali were the ones who requested French military support.

CaspianReport & Johnny Harris are just examples of how sometimes with flashy editing and visuals, you can get away with inaccurate shit to your audience.

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Vanished_Elephant t1_jaad7tz wrote

Not to mention all the cherry picking he does in this video, like when talking about GDP figures and comparing for example Ivory Coast which was a commodity based economy (cocoa, whose prices crashed in the 1980s) and also in the midst of a brutal years-long civil war while neighboring Ghana experienced relative peace and stability. These types of facts matter when covering geo-political subjects. Or the fancy graphics showing the flow of money going from the CFA countries to France and completely lacking any kind of source info. Maybe he should have included actual import/export statistics and realize that the big majority of CFA nations commerce is with the US/Canada/China. Or which mining companies actually most benefit from the natural resources there (hint, they're not French). Anyhow.. this video reeked of clickbait and anti-French propaganda. I'll keep watching his videos for entertainment purposes but a good reminder to be keenly aware of his bias.

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Silverwhitemango t1_jac12vi wrote

Its not just his videos I am worried about.

There have been several anti-France (not so much "anti-French" as in the French people) videos by so-called political channels, and they don't really cite their info on such issues.

Kinda similar to all the anti-US & anti-NATO videos regarding Ukraine but their talking points are distinctively Russia/China.

No one wants to cite their sources properly anymore, and just want to chase the algorithms or fact-check their stuff (Another channel I can think of that keeps getting recommended to me after I un-subbed from them is TLDR news.)

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valeyard89 t1_jaaxroc wrote

I found it very interesting Togo and Gabon joined the Commonwealth recently. They were French colonies, not British.

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Eogard t1_jabsy4w wrote

Wasn't Togo a German colony that was split between Uk and France after the war?

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Silverwhitemango t1_jac0srs wrote

Togoland, yea.

The western part of Togoland occupied by the British got sucked into modern day Ghana.

The eastern part became modern day Togo thanks to the French

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tnarref t1_jaa84uv wrote

I'm not sure he's biased, he might just be repeating what he's read elsewhere with no good understanding of monetary policy to make up his own opinion.

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