China has "tripled presence on Facebook and Twitter in recent months"
China has reportedly “tripled presence on Facebook and Twitter in
recent months” as it struggles to control Coronavirus narratives on the
internet as fingers have been pointed at them after their response to
the Covid-19 outbreak.
The world’s second biggest economy has reportedly bought up U.S. ads
to promote disinformation campaigns which have been likened to Russia by
the
Wall Street Journal.
According to the
Wall Street Journal:
The efforts include ad
purchases on Facebook Inc. FB 0.52% promoting the English-language arms
of Chinese state-media outlets, as well as posts there and on Twitter
Inc.’s TWTR -0.32% platform that in some cases disparage U.S. efforts to
fight the global pandemic, the researchers say.
From mid-February until early March, social-media sites linked to
Chinese state media posted more than 3,300 times a day, triple the
normal rate, according to Recorded Future, a Somerville, Mass.-based
cybersecurity consulting firm. Those outlets were principally active on
Facebook and Twitter, the research showed.
The effort to buy up social media ads was in an effort to shape the
Western world’s opinion over China’s involvement in the Hong Kong
protests which were eclipsed by the coronavirus outbreak.
The deadly Covid-19, which China failed to contain or act
transparently, has left a trail of destruction in its wake; tens of
thousands have died from the coronavirus as well as paralyzing global
economics.
One UK think tank placed the economic damage to
G7 countries to be in the vicinity of $7 trillion–and suggested reparations of hundreds of billions of dollars to the UK alone.
Since the end of 2018, China has bought up over 200 social media
ads–a third of which have been purchased in the past few months.
Researchers indicated China’s intentions acting in accordance with a
form of social consciousness damage control, after the general consensus
on the internet points to blaming China for the global pandemic
currently placing billions around the world on lockdown.
Several stories have emerged worsening China’s diplomatic image as
several countries report faulty PPE to combat the spread of the
Covid-19. The White House reported on face masks
donated to Beijing from Italy being forcefully sold back as the Mediterranean country struggles to tackle the pandemic.
Last Year, Silicon Valley was reportedly colluding with China in the
creation of an extra-legal social credit system as individual freedoms
are trounced in order to contain the coronavirus.
Source:
https://nationalfile.com/forget-russian-bots-chinese-trolls-now-pushing-fake-coronavirus-narratives-on-social-media/
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