CCP propaganda infiltration through social media

Signs of the Chinese regime’s influence are becoming more prevalent on YouTube

especially in English-language content about China

Paid agitators are flooding comment sections, propaganda videos are being masked as grassroots content, and influencers are being offered cash or crypto to push the regime’s message.

Aside from content that artificially boosts the regime’s image, much of the propaganda aims at discrediting Beijing’s critics, particularly religious and ethnic minorities persecuted in China, as well as the United States more broadly.

The propaganda content on YouTube largely lacks any disclosure that its progeny traces back to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Many times, it’s produced by American or European YouTubers with no apparent connection to the regime.

“[The CCP] has manipulated the public opinion space, especially on YouTube, in the past two, three years, to really focus on using foreign faces, and not people from China … to try to legitimize their claims,” said David Zhang. He runs the “China Insider with David Zhang” channel with more than 1.3 million subscribers and previously hosted a news program at NTD, a sister media of The Epoch Times.

Read more...

Communists and Democrats do a superb job lying to American citizens.