Kingston のおっさんの的はずれな論評

massage

〈数字・証拠などを〉不正に直す，改竄(かいざん)する.
to try to make facts or numbers appear better than they really are in order to deceive someone:

There is much legitimate criticism leveled at Abe in Japan. But the the level of hatred and condescension expressed here is mindnumbing, as well as the writer's resort to the weasly use of "widely assumed" to escape responsibility for indulging himself with conspiracy theories.

— Alternative Facts (@Okumura_Jun) April 16, 2020

Simon Denyer

今回はWaPoがひどいね。

— mozu (@mozumozumozu) April 16, 2020

Artificial intelligence will also be harnessed to monitor social media and see what is being said about Japan abroad. This will give the Foreign Ministry a chance to respond to “wrong information,” the Mainichi newspaper reported.


“The fact that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is wasting taxpayer money to contain the plague of foreign criticism is indicative of a government that has handled this more as a PR crisis than a pandemic,” said Jeff Kingston, director of Asian studies at Temple University Japan.

“It should be using AI to better deal with the outbreak than massaging foreign perceptions,” he added. “Effort should focus on containing the outbreak, treating patients and helping all those whose lives have been derailed by this pandemic rather than going to war with Japan’s critics.”

おれから言わせると、Kingston だな。これがまったく的外れじゃね？