Influencers are the new face of Chinese propaganda. Hidden amongst the vlogs about puppies and makeup, they clandestinely allow Beijing to whitewash its crimes against humanity.
Despite being blocked in China, YouTube has become a key ideological battleground for the Chinese Communist Party. And they have created a whole new ecosystem of influencers who tow the party line.
From looking at these videos, these Uygher influencers portray their homeland of Xinjiang as idyllic and prosperous. However, numerous and credible reports document Chinaβs ongoing crimes against the Uygher population β from rape, forced sterilization to slave labor.
Daria Impiombato, a Researcher at The Australian Strategic Policy Institute, and her team, watched over 1,700 of these videos. Soon enough, they found a worrying grey area in which these influencers operate.
Through working for βmulti-channel networksβ or MCNs,. These βinfluencer agenciesβ, with state-approved VPN networks, allow them to circumnavigate the all-powerful βGreat Firewall of Chinaβ.
However, these agencies are linked to the Chinese Communist Party, and their content must strictly follow Chinese law.
Beijingβs propaganda machine is attempting to control the narrative, not just within their borders, but directly within your algorithms too.
To read the research for yourself;
https://www.aspi.org.au/report/frontier-influencers
00:00 Intro
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02:20 Understanding Xinjiang
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the βinfluencerβ you picked out only gets a few thousand plays per video. Not even considered a influencer in China tbh.
They are just trying to be inclusive!
Thanks for posting!
lol vice cover up crimes against humanity too with their propaganda smear vids on targeted individuals..
It's not a Xinjiang it's not a part of china it's forcibly occupied by china it's name is East Turkestan there china,s occupied and genocides is going on we all need to take the action by the world
This is also happening to Christians there (the underground churches there are extreme)β¦ itβs essentially anyone that has a Faith that the CCP does not align with. So sad π’
Let's see how the US treat Muslims who haven't been charged with anything in Guantanamo Bay!!!
why google allow these fake video and don't take action
why is biden or america working so close with china and wanted money for his own. maybe you should make a video about that too. oh sorry, i forgot vice is bankrupt. or was it something done on purpose, so soros can take over for 225 million.
except western countries love to make propaganda that makes every country other than western bad so the western countries can be seen as a savior
The West is worried about the genocide of Muslims?
What a bunch of hypocrites.
How dare China tries to take the US's rightful #1 place at doing exactly that.
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Whitewashing US war crimes has been the main objective of Hollywood film industry for 80 years…
Nothing like western journalism, right?
Usa snowflakes crying about uighurs ,hate you fools hate muslims ,hypocrites ππ
Vice is a cia bot πππ
Honeypot
Native Chinese people and their culture are deceitful and not to be trusted. Donβt believe me? Ask Chinese people themselves how much they trust each other. Thereβs a reason why they place cameras and monitor their own people. They know they are not to be trusted.
They just up and vanished when exposed by Serpentza.
Guantanamo Bay prison π―πΊπΈ
all the people live in china know chinas problem is not ccp,it is chinese culture itself ,it is chinese people itself,their nationalism their greedy,their hate to other nation.you know in chinese website southkorea is most attacked country, they jealous them,all the country should ban chinese good and decouple with this dangarous nation.and dont forget chinese people are not silly they are just bad
China has been pushing it's propaganda outside the Chinese borders and it's not a new information.
However, what's appalling is that the US media, under the garb of " free journalism and democratic values" is hiding American propaganda under the rug and very cleverly pointing the direction towards others.
Typical American attitude, loves to preach but won't practice .
How does the notorious formula 'we lie, we cheat and we steal' fits in the current Xinjiang narrative? Well, this is one of them – We lie about 'genocide' in Xinjiang. We cheat the world with false accusations of 'forced labour' there. And by doing so, we want to steal from the Uyghur people the very opportunity to live a better life by banning all exports from Xinjiang. Ultimately, it is our hope that this will cause social upheavals just like the Arab Spring we instigated in the Middle East.
Free Xinjiang Uyghurs π
How can these chinese woman do this ?
wow
ASPI???? Need I say more. You are a paid propaganda by NED.