How the Chinese Government Fakes Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction [pdf]

Re:How the Chinese Government Fakes Social Media Posts for S... by Cpoll on Thursday November 16, 2017 @12:39AM (#15710485)

I think the point is that shark attacks are non-news, and the surge in interest is suspicious. You can probably replace 'shark attack' with any other 1-in-10-million occurrence/human interest story.

Of course, the cynical interpretation is that there's nothing weird going on, and people just have a larger attention span for gruesome fluke accidents than for corruption.

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Re:How the Chinese Government Fakes Social Media Posts for S... by jabretti on Thursday November 16, 2017 @01:34AM (#15710640)

Shark attacks are no more non-news than at least 80% of the crap that fills media outlets, and it's not the least bit suspicious. Shark attacks are lurid and scary and human attention is notoriously poorly distributed.

Yesterday, President Trump gave a speech about his trip to Asia, and 90% of the headlines were about the fact that he drank water during it.

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Re:How the Chinese Government Fakes Social Media Posts for S... by vim_wannabe on Thursday November 16, 2017 @04:08AM (#15711236)

Two sips?! Impeach that rice and cherry pie eating koi-killer!

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