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It's ironic that you listed the Wikipedia entry as evidence the 50 cent army is engaging in disinformation at an international scale. The only cited source for

by Aunche 6y ago

It's ironic that you listed the Wikipedia entry as evidence the 50 cent army is engaging in disinformation at an international scale. The only cited source for this describes a Huffington Post commenter disagreeing with an article and the author claiming that the commenter is a paid Chinese shill.

cowpig 6y ago
Here are some more sources: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-china-built-a-twitter-propaganda-machine-then-let-it-loose-on-coronavirus https://www.propublica.org/article/how-china-built-a-twitter... https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/a-wuhan-writers-life-during-the-outbreak-censorship-misinformation-and-anger/2020/07/01/f2919df6-ab4a-11ea-9063-e69bd6520940_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/a-wuhan-writers-life-... https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/23/world/asia/china-hong-kong-propaganda.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/23/world/asia/china-hong-kon... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/05/19/the-chinese-government-fakes-nearly-450-million-social-media-comments-a-year-this-is-why/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/05/1... https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-twitter-disinformation/twitter-takes-down-beijing-backed-influence-operation-pushing-coronavirus-messages-idUSKBN23I3A3 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-twitter-disinformat...
- Aunche 6y ago
  I don't disagree that China engages in global disinformation. I wouldn't have any problem with your comment if you had originally listed any of the sources above instead of the Wikipedia entry for the 50 cent army. My issue is that people on Hackernews and Reddit claim that anyone who says something that can remotely be interpreted as defending China must be a 50-cent shill. These supposed fighters of disinformation don't even bother to check whether is any evidence that the CCP is paying people to comment on English websites.

by Aunche 6y ago

cowpig 6y ago

Here are some more sources: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-china-built-a-twitter-propaganda-machine-then-let-it-loose-on-coronavirus https://www.propublica.org/article/how-china-built-a-twitter... https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/a-wuhan-writers-life-during-the-outbreak-censorship-misinformation-and-anger/2020/07/01/f2919df6-ab4a-11ea-9063-e69bd6520940_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/a-wuhan-writers-life-... https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/23/world/asia/china-hong-kong-propaganda.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/23/world/asia/china-hong-kon... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/05/19/the-chinese-government-fakes-nearly-450-million-social-media-comments-a-year-this-is-why/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/05/1... https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-twitter-disinformation/twitter-takes-down-beijing-backed-influence-operation-pushing-coronavirus-messages-idUSKBN23I3A3 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-twitter-disinformat...

Aunche 6y ago
I don't disagree that China engages in global disinformation. I wouldn't have any problem with your comment if you had originally listed any of the sources above instead of the Wikipedia entry for the 50 cent army. My issue is that people on Hackernews and Reddit claim that anyone who says something that can remotely be interpreted as defending China must be a 50-cent shill. These supposed fighters of disinformation don't even bother to check whether is any evidence that the CCP is paying people to comment on English websites.