Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction
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Re: Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction
#2I can't access it on Harvard website any more. Luckily the paper is already published so if you have access to the journal, download it here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-s...
Re: Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction
#3I can't access it on Harvard website any more. Luckily the paper is already published so if you have access to the journal, download it here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-s...
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Re: Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction
#4I can't access it on Harvard website any more. Luckily the paper is already published so if you have access to the journal, download it here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-s...
This link doesn't work for you?
https://gking.harvard.edu/files/gking/files/how_the_chinese_...
It's the "article" link on the page, and it works for me right now.
Re: Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction
#5This is great.
Please, please let this concept enter the general public's mind.
Re: Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction
#6This 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" ?
Re: Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction
#7I have seen the US government doing this a lot. Example, whitewashing the No Gun Ri massacre on Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=No_Gun_Ri&diff=185... ). That one is from US Central Command Multi National Security Transition Team Iraq.
Also have seen similar edits on Wikipedia from Ft. Benning/WHISC/SOA and so forth.
Re: Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction
#8"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."
Sensible. Cuts, however, against my mental caricature of an astroturfing shill.
Re: Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction
#9This is great. Please, please let this concept enter the general public's mind.
I agree. Distraction can be really disruptive to having meaningful, productive discussions. I think many people even do it reflexively even if they're not getting paid or instructed to. There was a recent HN post about terrible reeducation camps in Xinjiang [1]. Almost no one talked about the heartbreaking story or what it might mean, as most of the comments were tired derails into "the US is bad, too" territory and responses to them. I'm pretty sure the story got quickly buried because the flame-war detector got tripped. I'm sure the Chinese censors' hearts would flutter a little if they learned about that.
Re: Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction
#10And 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.