How China Unleashed Twitter Trolls to Discredit Hong Kong’s Protesters

Re:How China Unleashed Twitter Trolls to Discredit Hong Kong... by llIIlIlIllIIlIl on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @02:27PM (#21008420)

It's incredibly funny to me how concerned western netizens seem to be about Chinese astroturfing... as if it's an actual problem they need to worry about.

99.9999% of comments you'll find online are highly critical of China. The most upvoted submissions on Reddit and HN are often those critical of China. Most Americans (60% last time I checked) already have a negative view of China and their knee-jerk reaction is to support anything or anyone who speaks out against the CCP.

Does anyone really think 17 bots on Twitter tweeting messages in Chinese is going to change this?

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Re:How China Unleashed Twitter Trolls to Discredit Hong Kong... by bernierocks on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @03:24PM (#21009003)

"Does anyone really think 17 bots on Twitter tweeting messages in Chinese is going to change this?"

Try 17 thousand or 17 million bots, Tweeting in English.

This is also only a small fraction of what they are actually doing. If you take a look at many new movies coming out in the US, many are financed by a Chinese company.

They have also started buying major stakes in media companies, like Reddit.

The strange thing about the Hong Kong protests is that I can't seem to find any balanced coverage of it and I almost saw no coverage of it here on major US television networks.

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Re:How China Unleashed Twitter Trolls to Discredit Hong Kong... by cylinder714 on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @04:59PM (#21010138)

Try 17 thousand or 17 million bots, Tweeting in English

And now they've got Reddit covered with /r/Sino but I'm unsure if that's new or not.

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