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Stanford Seminar- How the Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction
Speaker: Jen Pan, Stanford UniversityThe speaker examines how the Chinese regime controls information online and how the government engages in censorship. The government uses different types of filters to control what content is viewed by the public and what content is removed and unseen. "Internet commentators" are prominent players in media fabrication as they post social media comments as if they are those of the general public, when in reality they are paid comments. Through this strategic distraction, the Chinese government has control of choosing what content to view audience members…
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