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China Spreads Propaganda to U.S. on Facebook, a Platform it Bans at Home (nytimes.com)
Paul Mozur, reporting for the New York Times: China does not allow its people to gain access to Facebook, a powerful tool for disseminating information and influencing opinion. As if to demonstrate the platform's effectiveness, outside its borders China uses it to spread state-produced propaganda around the world, including the United States (Editor's note: the link could be paywalled; alternative source). So much do China's government and companies value Facebook that the country is Facebook's biggest advertising market in Asia, even as it is the only major country in the region that blocks the social network. A look at the Facebook pages of China Central Television, the leading state-owned broadcast network better known as CCTV, and Xinhua, China's official news agency, reveals hundreds of English-language posts intended for an English-speaking audience. Each quarter China's government, through its state media agencies, spends hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy Facebook ads, according to a person with knowledge of those deals, who was unauthorized to talk publicly about the company's revenue streams. China's propaganda efforts are in the spotlight with President Trump visiting the country and American lawmakers investigating foreign powers's use of technology to sway voters in the United States.
Come on people. That foreign adversaries would try to further their agendas using social networks is about a surprising as gambling in a Casablanca.
I bet even "friendly" nations are doing this to some extent too.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
To defend yet another communist regime from valid criticism that it is actively attacking American values and damaging the political process. How did right/left get so absurdly mixed up in this country?
Trump or Clinton?
we are a nation of knee jerk reactionaries that refuse not only to fact check but will happily accept the majority consensus of feels over reality. As a people the human race has failed. I for one welcome our AI overlords.. as long as they aren't facebook's AI, because I hear they have poo brain.
Oh wait, Farmville.
The red carpet treatment, lol. Trump just gets played over and over and over again.
They even got "Weird Al" Yankovic.
#DeleteFacebook
Surely there must be something in The Art of War about using your opponents own weapons against them....
Uh, the original AC troll for this calls for "my DAMN balls" as the appropriate usage.
I wasn't a fan of that short lived meme, but at least do it correctly.
It's just Creimer. We all know it. We can tell by the way the ACs write. Just ignore his sorry ass.
The whole left/right paradigm is a giant scam. Why is it that no matter who gets elected, the only thing that materially changes is we get more war, more spending, more laws, more taxes, more regulations, and less freedom?
The left and the right are two wings of the same bird of prey, and all of us are on the menu.
Stop thinking of left v. right. The real issue is The State v. all of us.
Now that Van Jones and Donna Brazil have both pulled back the cover on the DNC, they are being sent to the back of the proverbial bus.
It cannot be racist if Democrats send blacks to the back of the us.
I'm getting tired of being treated not as a complete human being but as an object that does thing.
I'm not saying "This is immoral, therefore China is bad." I'm saying "This is a (propaganda) fight between two sides. China is on the other one, therefore it's bad."
It's similar to how I'll root for the military forces of my country in a war against another one, even if both sides are using the same tactics I disagree with.
Your ad here. Ask me how!
and other countries. Don't kid yourself, if your country does it, other countries will return the favor. Stop trying to play the victim, it's not working.
Since the Democrats can't seem to pin any sort of nefarious Russian influence on Trump winning the election, it's now on to the next boogie man. I suspect if they dig hard enough, they'll find that the Clintons took Chinese bribes, too.
The narrative will then change again and they'll blame someone else. Who? Al Quaeda? ISIS?
The New York Times is really getting pathetic with the obvious propaganda and lies it prints nowdays. It used to be more subtle.
way to go 'murika. by allowing your electorate to remain ignorant, its easily influenced by outside forces. you made your bed. sleep well.
I wasn't a fan of that short lived meme, but at least do it correctly.
Only one person can settle this: Natalie Portman, naked and petrified, covered in hot oatmeal.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
Hell about everything could be considered propaganda.
I have some ass troll running around lying about china's actions while trying to knock me down. I am guessing that he is from China, since he does not give a shit about anything else.
Basically, China and Russia have been using the internet and traitors like Trump against America. Even now, Trump CORRECTLY pointed out how bad China was WRT to economics, and then he turned after his family got what they wanted.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Of course China bans Facebook. Do you know how much propaganda is on that thing? You'd have to be an idiot to let all that shit into your country!
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
The United States is very big, and throughout its history it has contained many different subcultures and social mores. Utah isn't anything like New York, and rural areas aren't anything like metropolitan areas. Yet these people must coexist within the same body. The only cultural thing that really matters in the US the respect for another's right to think and express themselves freely. Your neighbor's God, sports preference, favorite foods, marriage status, or politics is not a matter of national security.
Countries where this matters - where people are often killed for having a dissenting opinion, teaching history, or exposing corruption - are inferior.
I once found what appeared to be a genuine DPRK propaganda facebook page. Almost everyone that was subscribed was there to laugh at it and throw tomatoes.
Eventually I unsubscribed. I couldn't shake the feeling that liking the page was signing me up for additional review by some NSA watchlist.
I was born chinese, and like vast majority of the world, I don't like china or its people. Because they choose to be evil, anti-universal values, anti-moral, anti-freedom, anti-democracy, anti-truth. I worked very hard to emigrate to america, and I see china's economic collapse has already begun, in addition to many very serious social disasters.
I don't think foreign propaganda is really a problem here. It's rather american elite protecting their propaganda channels from outside interference. People are just tired of constant lies and fakes flowing from just every mainstream news channel in United States. Anyone having access to any kind of foreign media, be it russian, chineese, iranian, indian, syrian or independent media sees clearly all lies and propaganda in western channels. In this regard you've become a Soviet Union of 21 century, folks. So
get your own house in order instead of censoring everyone who doesn't tow to the line of western propaganda.
oatmeal.
well played
"a powerful tool for disseminating information and influencing opinion."
Rather a powerful tool for disseminating unverified propaganda as fact and influencing the lazy and unaware.
Facebook posts have no fact-checking, no vetting, no accountability.