China increases spending 500% to influence America

Re:China increases spending 500% to influence America by ravenstine on Monday May 17, 2021 @02:47PM (#27186727)

Maybe it's because people such as ourselves aren't the target of said propaganda. We're a small fraction of the population. Frankly, most people are content consuming drivel of all kinds, and propaganda may actually have an influence over them.

If that's the tactic, it's genius. Find the boundary where intellectuals dismiss the propaganda as ineffectual yet it still works on the 80% to some degree.

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Re:China increases spending 500% to influence America by atatatat on Monday May 17, 2021 @03:05PM (#27187024)

The future is the target — kids.

See: TikTok.

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Re:China increases spending 500% to influence America by capedape on Monday May 17, 2021 @09:13PM (#27190280)

This, and the World’s app appetite in general. I’ve noticed them up their maker game in various ways with other apps like CapCut which makes video editing very easy and is owned by the same company as Tik Tok. People made a big stink about Tik Tok’s privacy, but there are so many apps still in there with sensitive info going through PRC servers. Marginnote is another app that is so good for research on iOS. I was reading a very obscure book with it while also on the Marginnote beta. I quit testing and noticed months later, in promotional material, the book I was reading was displayed as an example in the iOS store. Could have been coincidence, but the odds are quite low. They are gaining in cool tech soft power quickly.

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Re:China increases spending 500% to influence America by FpUser on Monday May 17, 2021 @03:00PM (#27186931)

All you have to do is read user comments on news outlets for example. If those are anywhere close to representing general populace then it is clear that propaganda got to be dumb and something in line of "do not let the facts get in a way of a story".

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