Remember the US government versus Huawei 5G war?
Still in my opinion, the most important part of the tech war. At least it was.
A few times, on a Friday, the American media would announce that Italy made a decision to ban Huawei. That news always came out late Friday afternoon.
It is the weekend. No one is around to verify or even ask questions. All of the government has gone home for the weekend. But the message was sent. The dezinformatsia was done.
This ploy of planting news stories, or fake news, continued.
A couple of times, we heard lately that the Dutch will ban some lithography equipment being sold to the Chinese. That news, comes out on a Friday afternoon.
Since the idea is planted, people just assume it is true, because no one questions it over the weekend. Too many things going on over the weekend, such as leisure activities, family time, the Super Bowl, etc.
So here we are again, on a Friday afternoon, we are told that the Russians are back stabbing the Chinese.
Okay, it is the weekend.
Binge drinking dirty parties is all what people will think about.
By Monday, it is like they wonder or believe if the Russians finally did stab the Chinese in the back this time.