How do we know what she says is true?
I mean, I think it's true, solely based on the things I know about China's surveillance... But it does not mean we should just take this tweet as a fact...
I mean, I think it's true, solely based on the things I know about China's surveillance... But it does not mean we should just take this tweet as a fact...
How do we know that she is a person?
How do we know that China is a country?
How do we know what a tweet is?
You're right. There are many assumptions we can make here. Can you say why you chose that particular point of abstraction?
For example, it could be the author PM'd another journalist about an event, and the 3rd party then posted it publicly. Or they just ratted her out to the feds. Who knows?