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>All the major message broadcast services, equivalents of e.g. Twitter and Facebook, are astroturfed with pro-government propaganda. This is a conspiracy theor
by dilemma 9y ago
>All the major message broadcast services, equivalents of e.g. Twitter and Facebook, are astroturfed with pro-government propaganda.
This is a conspiracy theory. Prove it.
>They could just partition their foreign services to not include domestic filters.
Already done with WeChat.
- blusterXY 9y agohttp://www.dcxxww.gov.cn/cfohtml/kuaibao/2201.html http://www.dcxxww.gov.cn/cfohtml/kuaibao/2201.html
- IIAOPSW 9y agoIts common knowledge. Even has a wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
- simonh 9y agoChinese government officials are on record praising the departments and teams that do the astroturfing for their patriotism and promoting social stability. It's officially government policy. They only really get embarrassed about it in front of foreigners.