Facebook made a similar announcement today: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/08/removing-cib-china/
Wow, those posts. They are so unsubtle.
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#22HongKonger here. I have some friends in China posting similar anti-protest posts on WeChat social media. It's like the news they read has a completely different story than what it's being told in legitimate new sources. The problem of fake news does become very apparent, and I hope people in China can eventually gain awareness or at least start to question the validity of their news sources.
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#23I don't think HN is immune to these kinds of CCP ops.
The problem is that calling someone a paid, or unpaid shill on HN is unproductive.
There's a world of difference (But little way for a third party to tell apart) between:
A paid shill.
An unpaid troll.
Someone who genuinely believes what they are posting, because they do not have the same information you do.
Someone who genuinely believes what they are posting, despite having the same information as you, because they prioritise different bits of that information differently. That is called a 'political opinion'.
For reference, I have been called a CCP shill at least once. I have never been to China, I have no affiliation with the CCP, I am not trolling, and I have not received a penny for posting nonsense here.
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#24I don't think HN is immune to these kinds of CCP ops.
I doubt HN is even on the CCP's radar. Not only are we a low-value target, we're much harder to subvert.
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#25So this has become the norm now. Social media products who’s primary utility is to share information between people are now being used by governments to sow discord.
Nothing new except the medium.
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#26So this has become the norm now. Social media products who’s primary utility is to share information between people are now being used by governments to sow discord.
Your basically complaining that paper can be used to write whatever you want on it, by you and by people you don't like.
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#27This doesn't really explain the money they took from Xinhua News to promote certain tweets that lied about the protests being violent or unwanted by the majority of HK residents. https://twitter.com/pinboard/status/1162711159000055808 https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-is-running-paid-ads-...
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#28This sounds like convenient achievement to establish that they’re tough on shenanigans they don’t like.
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#29This doesn't really explain the money they took from Xinhua News to promote certain tweets that lied about the protests being violent or unwanted by the majority of HK residents. https://twitter.com/pinboard/status/1162711159000055808 https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-is-running-paid-ads-...
It's just a little further down: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/advertisi...
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#30I immediately thought to lookup Twitter's company about section. Under Values: > We believe in free expression and think every voice has the power to impact the world. Edit: I didn’t realize I appeared to be supporting the trolls. No, I meant it’s good to know Twitter would support the Hong Kong protestors.
But yeah “every voice”. May have to start explicitly excluding government propaganda and/or “troll armies”.