Western Social Media v Chinese Communist Party Media
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Source: The Epoch Times
By J.M. Phelps | January 8, 2022
This combination of file pictures created on August 22, 2018 shows a photo illustration taken on March 23, 2018 of Twitter logos on a computer screen in Beijing and a file illustration picture taken on April 28, 2018 of the logo of social network Facebook displayed on a screen and reflected on a tablet in Paris. (Nicolas Asfouri, Lionel Bonaventure/AFP via Getty Images)
By J.M. Phelps | January 8, 2022
The Chinese regime is perfecting its ability to influence social media users through the spread of propaganda and disinformation, an analyst says, despite encountering few setbacks.
Twitter in December removed 2,160 accounts linked to Chinese information campaigns. Most of the accounts were removed because they "amplified" the Chinese Communist Party's narrative to stymie allegations of human rights abuses by Beijing against the Uyghur population in Xinjiang, Twitter said.
Last year, Facebook also took note of various China-based operations when it was alerted to an account purporting to be a Swiss biologist named Wilson Edwards. According to the fake biologist's Twitter and Facebook postings, "the United States was putting pressure on World Health Organization scientists studying the origins of COVID-19 in an attempt to blame the virus on China."
Chinese state media outlets, including the Global Times and People's Daily, then began running pieces quoting the fake scientist with headlines about alleged "intimidation" efforts of the United States. When the Swiss embassy in Beijing announced that there was no Swiss citizen by that name, Facebook found that the account was fake, having been created less than 12 hours before it started posting about the pandemic. Facebook responded by deleting more than 600 accounts in November linked to the Chinese disinformation campaign.
"The Chinese Communist Party is engaged in a broad, diverse campaign to influence U.S. policymakers, companies, academics, media, and public opinion to align U.S. policy with China's interests," an FBI spokesperson told The Epoch Times in an email.
Strategies Sowing Distrust
Evan Anderson, CEO of INVNT/IP, an organization that fights state-sponsored intellectual property theft, told The Epoch Times that, historically, it's not unusual for countries to attempt to use propaganda and misinformation to shape public opinion in order to achieve their own strategic goals. Russia and the CCP, in particular, have used a variety of foreign malign influence operations to shape a narrative that suits them best.
The "Gerasimov doctrine," for example, is attributed to Valery Gerasimov, the current Chief of the General Staff of the Russian armed forces. According to the doctrine, military, diplomatic, economic, technological, information, cultural tactics are combined to achieve Russia's strategic goals. Similarly, the People's Liberation Army's (PLA) concept of "unrestricted warfare" uses the same tactics and techniques to weaken adversaries of the Communist regime.
Anderson said the digital era has changed "absolutely everything," as Russia and China continue to attempt to undermine the United States by influencing policymakers, companies, academics, and media. Both countries have learned that the spread of disinformation contributes to winning over foreign audiences and sowing distrust toward the United States, he said.
The near-identical strategies have become increasingly effective in the digital era, according to Anderson.
"Propaganda can be within the pocket of every American citizen [with a cell phone] within seconds," he said, adding that modern digital infrastructure and its connection to millions of citizens around the world provides a near-boundless ability to spread misinformation.
Learn and Improve
Using a "very formulaic approach," the Russians may have perfected the use of propaganda as a tactic, according to Anderson.
"They mixed a percentage of truth with a slightly higher percentage of misinformation or propaganda and delivered it to an audience that was already inclined to hear it," he said. The method, Anderson said, proved to be effective in "affecting the way those people thought about certain topics."
The Chinese regime has learned a lot from Russia in the past five years and Beijing is doing its best to implement the same tactics with limited success, Anderson said. "What we’re seeing is [the Chinese regime] stumbling through the testing that's required to perfect the methods they've seen work for Russia."
Anderson referred to the example of the Swiss biologist persona created by China to shape the narrative surrounding the origins of the pandemic. "This was a clumsy effort that could be easily improved upon," Anderson said, adding that one of the biggest dangers the United States or an ally can do is dismiss Beijing's attempt.
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So now China is assisting Saudi Arabia to procure technology to manufacture ballistic missiles? Iran has its work cutout for it now. Saudi Arabia is a looney state of primitive backwards fundamentalist Sunni maniacs with a lot of oil money and they want ballistic missiles?
Taiwan sits 100 miles off China's coast. It is not Taiwan that China wants. It is the microprocessor technology China wants sitting 100 miles off China's coast. Do Americans really want China's CCP accessing TSMC so that China can power up the "Fourth Industrial Revolution" and weaponize A.I.? China does not have the capacity as a people to cope with this technology. If you do not understand this please listen to the lectures by Jason Reza Jorjani. As Jorjani says: "It is total insanity to allow the Chinese to have the monopolization over these A.I. singularity technologies." This is a damn frightening global specter we are seeing unfold here in China. America needs to step in to remove this technology and return it to America. Something the Japanese now see as a terminal threat (preventing China from accessing facial recognition technology). Without America (its foundational ideals of human dignity of the individual even though under enormous threat) the world is not going to be a very pleasant place to live in.
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