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and how does that combat inflation of the USD ?
I can only repeat myself: All social media platforms currently belong to dictatorships and their supporters.
“What happened that the right suddenly became so powerful?”
Trump happened. Meta, X, and others programmed their algorithms with just a few clicks to push right-wing narratives.
Since a large portion of the Western population gets its news from these platforms and spends a lot of time there, the rise of the right is no surprise—it doesn’t really need any explanation.
There is a lot more to explain, this didn’t start with the president, and it doesn’t end with him. This is a 50 year conspiracy birthed by the Business Roundtable of 1971, project 2025 was just the latest iteration of that.
All the more reason why it’s important to support alternatives like the fediverse.
This comes with no surprise imo. China and Russia are heavily investing in disinformation campaigns to disrupt democracies, and now another dictatorship has appeared.
China does? I mean for like Tibet and their restive provinces I am sure. They don’t tend to interfere outside of that in such ways do they? I am unaware of any such meddling, they try to do influence operations on social media but they are so laughably bad to western audiences they have no effect. Unlike the Russians, they get us.
External propaganda - meaning the disinformation and misinformation outside of the country contrary to the domestic propaganda within the country - emerged in China during the Yan’an period (1935-1947) as the Chinese Communist Party made its base in the northern province of Shaanxi, as the China Media Project writes in an excellent analysis, stating that the idea of external propaganda, if not yet the concrete term, emerged as early as the 1920s in China.
In the 21st century, it has been given a new push, of course. As Reporters Without Borders has found, Chinese state-media CGTN is trying to shape global narratives in 65 languages. State-owned propaganda outlet CGTN has
- three content production centres in Washington D.C., London, and Nairobi
- Reporters and correspondents based in more than 60 countries and regions, including Madrid, Moscow, Geneva, Brussels, Dakar, Johannesburg, Lagos, Cairo, New York, Sydney, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Bangkok, Bengaluru, Delhi and Mumbai
- Broadcasts available in English, Spanish, French, Arabic and Russian worldwide via satellite, cable, and IPTV (internet protocol television).
- CGTN also owns one video news agency, CCTV +.
And CGTN’s influence extends across television, radio and online platforms (website and social media), reaching over 160 countries.
The CCP’s existence as the ‘50 cent party’ is well-known. One study published already in 2017 says that the Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction:
The Chinese government has long been suspected of hiring as many as 2,000,000 people to surreptitiously insert huge numbers of pseudonymous and other deceptive writings into the stream of real social media posts, as if they were the genuine opinions of ordinary people. Many academics, and most journalists and activists, claim that these so-called “50c party” posts vociferously argue for the government’s side in political and policy debates. As we show, this is also true of the vast majority of posts openly accused on social media of being 50c …
More recently, Russian propaganda abounds in Chinese social media debate on Ukraine.
France identified a network of fake news sites managed by Chinese state media back in spring.
The history of Chinese external propaganda has been evident for decades. You’ll easily find a vast amount of very good sources.
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Thanks will look into these links.
I did know about their domestic bullshit with their strict moderation and fake posts, I didn’t know they had 2,000,000 of them, that is wild.
A lot of intelligence agencies now also pay established influencers for stuff. Like during covid when they were trying to fob blame onto the US, they blamed some DJ that had been to China in late 2019 for introducing the virus, benny bennassi, and hired US influencers to push that narrative. They trolled the hell out of some old lady that shared the last name despite having nothing to do with the DJ.
But Russia pays like the TImes of India to slip stories in they ghostwrote, the US hires influencers for stuff like this, sometimes openly too. I am sure China does a lot of that too.
A good share of what they do in other countries is target their expatriates that have criticized them.
