Posted on Aug 19, 2019
Facebook and Twitter Say China Is Spreading Disinformation in Hong Kong
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China has aggressively stirred up anti-Western and nationalist sentiment using state and social media as part of an information war in the Hong Kong protests.
On Monday, Facebook and Twitter said they had discovered and taken down networks of accounts that had originated in mainland China, where both social networks are blocked. The accounts had posted that the Hong Kong protesters were acting violently and accused them of ulterior motives. One Facebook post likened the protesters to ISIS fighters.
The takedowns of the China-linked accounts mark an escalation in the global disinformation wars. In 2015 and 2016, Russia pioneered a disinformation playbook when it used Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social media services to disseminate inflammatory messages intended to divide Americans in the 2016 presidential election. Since then, many other countries — including Bangladesh, Iran and Venezuela — have also turned to Facebook and Twitter to sow discord at home and abroad.
China had been less visible about using Facebook and Twitter to spread disinformation in the past, researchers have said.
On Monday, Facebook and Twitter said they had discovered and taken down networks of accounts that had originated in mainland China, where both social networks are blocked. The accounts had posted that the Hong Kong protesters were acting violently and accused them of ulterior motives. One Facebook post likened the protesters to ISIS fighters.
The takedowns of the China-linked accounts mark an escalation in the global disinformation wars. In 2015 and 2016, Russia pioneered a disinformation playbook when it used Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social media services to disseminate inflammatory messages intended to divide Americans in the 2016 presidential election. Since then, many other countries — including Bangladesh, Iran and Venezuela — have also turned to Facebook and Twitter to sow discord at home and abroad.
China had been less visible about using Facebook and Twitter to spread disinformation in the past, researchers have said.
Facebook and Twitter Say China Is Spreading Disinformation in Hong Kong
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Sigh...I get so weary of those ChiCom bozos...they're gonna lose, simple as that...this was bound to happen on an island accustomed to a century of British democracy, even with all its nonsensical monarchist garbage...this is nothing more than the next step after Tiannenmen Square...Russia ultimately lost the Soviet Union, now it's the ChiCom's turn to ultimately lose...there's zero way the ChiComs can win this...when that Commie moron Deng Xiao Peng introduced capitalism into China in an effort to pacify the populace, the idiot forgot to realize that doing so was, ultimately, going to be self-defeating...I give the ChiComs maybe a decade or two.more, then they're gonna lose, that whole country is gonna finally go capitalist democratic as it very nearly did before WW2 and Japan, and Taiwan is gonna win the whole thing, all of it...it's just a question of when, not if...Communism never works, for the simple reason that it just doesn't work...reward incentive is gonna ultimately doom Commie China to the dustbin of histiry, exactly as it happened with the Soviet Union...they can try for all the proxy states they please, just like Russia did with the USSR, it all means nothing, zero, zip, nada, bupkas, goose egg...this is no different than what started with Hungary and Czechoslovakia in the 50s, then finally spread to Poland with Lech Walesa and the Gdansk shipyard union, as well as Romania overthrowing the Ceaucescus...there's zero difference, guys,.it's absolutely the same, just a different place, history repeating itself all over again, honest, that's just simply how I perceive it....
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MSG Stan Hutchison
You may very well be correct. Sadly, however, there are going to be a hell of a lot of lives lost first.
Actually, I would not be surprised for China to start some type of war in the hopes of uniting their nation and cementing the power hold the government there has.
Actually, I would not be surprised for China to start some type of war in the hopes of uniting their nation and cementing the power hold the government there has.
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Capt Daniel Goodman
I follow...that's exactly what happened in the Soviet Union, and they still lost, the ChiComs will also, it just started later there, it's gonna end later as a result...the dynamics of it may differ, however, the end result will eventually be the same...Russia is still dictatorial, still run by ex-KGB apparatchiks, China may well have its own version of the same, however, the whole Soviet thing is gone, the ChiComs are gonna lose their version also, eventually, there's absolutely zero they can do to prevent it....
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