China Spreads Propaganda to U.S. on Facebook, a Platform it Bans at Home

New York Times ^ | November 8, 2017 | Paul Mozur

[Gennie]

HONG KONG — China does not allow its people to gain access to Facebook, a powerful tool for disseminating information and influencing opinion.

As if to demonstrate the platform’s effectiveness, outside its borders China uses it to spread state-produced propaganda around the world, including the United States. So much do China’s government and companies value Facebook that the country is Facebook’s biggest advertising market in Asia, even as it is the only major country in the region that blocks the social network.

[Gennie]

This is just one aspect of China targeting the USA, it's part of a larger agenda - they also have and are targeting small businesses with cyber warfare as well.

China Turns Cyber Weapons on American Small Businesses via APT10

[CMB_polarization]

I was wondering when we'd get back to the subject of the Communist Chinese. They've been flying under the radar for an uncomfortably long period of time. All this US vs. Russia stuff has been to the Chinese advantage.

[ckilmer]

Heck a lot of the articles I read about china on the ap wire look like they were written by the chinese information agencies.