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When the NY Times covered the Chinese robotic moon landing, it was in the top 10 stories for more than a week. In the most space-jaded country on the planet. The rating was sustained by constant comments by Chinese studying in the US and burnishing their reps with the Party. You can almost always make Chinese English, an AI program could be trained to do it. I wrote to their ombudsman. Down in a day.
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This is great. Please, please let this concept enter the general public's mind.
Do you mean the concept that: "Any/all organizations can/do seed a particular narrative to serve their strategic purposes" ?
> In contrast to prior claims, we show that the Chinese regime's strategy is to avoid arguing with skeptics of the party and the government, and to not even discuss controversial issues. We show that the goal of this massive secretive operation is instead to distract the public and change the subject, as most of the these posts involve cheerleading for China, the revolutionary history of the Communist Party, or other symbols of the regime.
Does anyone think this does not happen in other countries? Maybe even in your own country (but not ours, obviously)? And not just by governments, but by political parties, foreign entities, corporations, lobbying groups, interest groups, etc, any entity with an interest in distracting, muddying, defining a narrative, or swaying opinion? And once you consider that, consider the numerous potential reasons why social me…
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I think the last remark about Xi Jinping's wife was uncalled for (I'm Taiwanese American).
I am not a native speaker. I can't parse that sentence :/.
Why is this `also` true ? In addition to what ? Wouldn't it follow that posts arguing in favour of the government's side are tagged as `50c` since `50c` seems to be defined by being `pro government` ?
And then:
> [..] we show that the Chinese regime’s strategy is to avoid arguing with skeptics of the party and the government, and to not even discuss controversial issues.
If I ignore the `also` word in the first quote it all makes sense.
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Maybe a little, but the main thing I see in stories like that is dozens of comments that that derail the comments into a "the US is just as bad!" flame-war, and kill discussion of the negative story.
It's really effective, because Western users are often ignorant of China and/or indifferent to it, but will happily jump into a flame-war about Western countries when presented with the bait.
And water is wet. Israel is at the forefront of it https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/11/in... https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/08/14/israel-... You mean the chinese are focused on propaganda as much as we are? As much as israel, britain, russia and everyone else? Amazing.
One particular interesting thing about this particular case is the scale and the focus, but do we really think other governments don't try? Even companies astroturf.