How the Chinese government fabricates social media posts for strategic distraction

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Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/01/19/how-the-chinese-government-fab.html

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In America, our leaders roll up their sleeves and type up their own fabricated social media posts! Take that lazy commies!!! (Not you, Putin. You’re great!)

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Like that doesn’t already happen in the rest of the world…

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Curious who runs that organization within the gov’t and what sort of sway that person holds.

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Is this why Donald’s best tweets always artive in the middle of the night local time?

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Did China learn from the donald, or was it the other way around?

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we could use that technique here in the us with something like 9-11

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So assuming that China fabricated this story too, what is it distracting us from?

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something sneaky.

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Eh, Faux News has been doing that for years.

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I was funnier in the other thread.

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Every time I see a picture of an eagle crying or an unnaturally colored eagle (you know red white and blue). I sort of assume they’re not a real person much in the same way.

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Yeah. Like right in the middle of the workday, in… Manchuria.

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松鼠

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what is with the shitty screen grab of an office Org chart with?

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How the American government fabricates social media posts for strategic distraction:

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They must have seen this video. . . :wink:

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So assuming that China fabricated this story too, what is it distracting us from?

Strange, awkward, 'Murican shitposting?

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…and there we have it.

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Some of you might find this video interesting from the 80’s given by a Russian Propagandist.

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