How China is Influencing YouTubers into Posting State Propaganda

Medium ^ | Jan 22, 2020 | Thomas Brown

[HK_Kai_Chung]

China’s use of foreign media, Franco’s amateurish and heavy-handed attempts notwithstanding, are becoming increasingly sophisticated and the CCP is recruiting foreign faces for those platforms as well, especially on YouTube. Even in China, where YouTube is illegal, China’s government is using westerners to push the party line and suppress contradicting information. Westerners on those platforms outside of China, like J.J., and even inside China itself, have reported attempts by individuals to sponsor their platforms and secure them massive audiences on Chinese platforms in exchange for editorial control over a new, pro-CCP message.

[HK_Kai_Chung]

[DoodleBob]

I'm not surprised. Read about Walter Duranty, NY Times' Moscow bureau chief from 1922-1936. Per wiki, in 1932 Duranty received a Pulitzer Prize for a series of positive reports about the Soviet Union, and subsequently denied widespread famine, most particularly in Ukraine. Since then, the Times, wrote that his later articles denying the famine constituted "some of the worst reporting to appear in this newspaper.

[moovova]

"You velly important internet influencer. You give good internet report on China or you be solly."

[yldstrk]

There are Chinese spies all over, and people paid to talk positively about China.

[marktwain]

Very good article.