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> Recorded Future’s Insikt Group has discovered a large-scale, likely state-sponsored influence operation against the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) and the
by criticaltinker 5y ago
> Recorded Future’s Insikt Group has discovered a large-scale, likely state-sponsored influence operation against the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) and the United Kingdom (UK). The campaign involves hundreds of websites and social media accounts and thousands of comments across state-affiliated news sources, fake news websites, and Chinese and Western social media platforms.
> There have been over 11,000 references of the Mandarin-language term for “gloom filter” across open sources in the past 6 months, with over half of them occurring in the last 30 days. English-language mentions of “BBC underworld filter” have also spiked over the past several weeks, totaling over 56,300 in 6 weeks. [...] We are confident that this uptick results from recent pro-China influencers amplifying the “gloom filter” theory.
> On July 19, 2021, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Zhao Lijian asserted across social media that BBC edited the color out of a photo of a popular British pro-China social media “influencer” named Jason Lightfoot, who also goes by the moniker “Living In China”. One post stated, “#GloomFilter comes again! It could be accounted as one of BBC’s familiar supernatural skills, to turn a green and prosperous city into a grey desolation”.
> The volume of activity paired with a clearly identifiable narrative, coordination across the Chinese state-sponsored media apparatus, use of both Mandarin and foreign-language content, use of dozens of fringe media outlets, and the campaign’s alignment with the CCP’s objectives create a clear picture of how the CCP is conducting large-scale information operations to counter criticism and censor foreign media
It doesn't matter whose side you're on folks, the age of trustworthy news and journalism may very well be behind us. We need to equip future generations with the ability to think critically and clearly, challenging any trends driven by "likes" and "shares" with a tremendous amount of skepticism.
- rasz 5y agohttps://vodpub2.v.news.cn/publish/20210721/XxjfyxE007098_20210721_CBVFN0A002.jpg https://vodpub2.v.news.cn/publish/20210721/XxjfyxE007098_202... They color corrected his over saturated video, but also went ahead and removed green from the trees. Sure looks like like someone at BBC playing propaganda.
- jjulius 5y ago>Sure looks like like someone at BBC playing propaganda. Or, maybe, it could be as simple as whoever color-corrected the over-saturation just did a shitty job.
- criticaltinker 5y agoAnd as a third possibility, color correction can be difficult when trying to achieve "white-balance" (usually involves tweaking green & magenta) that looks appropriate on a wide variety of displays and monitors. Still, ideally everyone in the modern era should be aware of basic techniques to manipulate the look and feel of photos and videos - from color correction and filters to lighting and camera angles.
- peytn 5y agoThey just brought his skin back by bringing down the reds and greens…
- pjc50 5y agoThat looks relatively normal? I don't see what different impression slightly darker trees give? I was expecting something a bit more blatant, like putting Corbyn on a Kremlin background https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-43463496.amp https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainmen... Personally the UK government influence on the BBC matters a lot more.
- fsagx 5y agoColor correction as propaganda seems like a stretch in this case. A more obvious example may be Time magazine's treatment of the famous OJ Simpson mugshot. http://www.alteredimagesbdc.org/oj-simpson http://www.alteredimagesbdc.org/oj-simpson
- jollybean 5y agoThat would be the most ridiculous attempt at propaganda ever, by any nation - to change the green on one, single image that almost nobody would ever see. "Henry, change that tree to grey, it'll change hearts and minds!" More likely is that it was either a mistake, a joke, an individual actor doing something they shouldn't. If it were an effort of 'systematic propaganda' then it would be consistent, you'd be able to find a number of such images.