Twitter ran paid ads from China's state news media criticizing the Hong Kong protests. Business Insider. Gearchiveerd op 21 augustus 2019. Geraadpleegd op 20 augustus 2019. “'Two months on, the escalating violence in Hong Kong has taken a heavy toll on the social order,' one tweet reads, adding that 'all walks of life in Hong Kong called for a brake to be put on the blatant violence and for order to be restored.' A second sponsored tweet portrayed the public sentiment in Hong Kong as at odds with the protests, saying that 'Hong Kong citizens call for stopping violence, ending chaos and restoring order in the city.'”
Have You Seen These Ads About Hong Kong's Protests? China Certainly Hopes You Have. BuzzFeed News. Gearchiveerd op 20 augustus 2019. Geraadpleegd op 20 augustus 2019. “BuzzFeed News found nearly 50 different promoted tweets from the Twitter accounts of Xinhua News Agency, China’s official state-run press organization; the Chinese Communist Party–owned China Daily; and China Plus News, the English-language site of the state-owned China Radio International. Similar ads were also running on Facebook from Xinhua and CGTN, a state-owned 24-hour news channel that broadcasts in English.”
Have You Seen These Ads About Hong Kong's Protests? China Certainly Hopes You Have. BuzzFeed News. Gearchiveerd op 20 augustus 2019. Geraadpleegd op 20 augustus 2019. “Facebook's ad library, which is more comprehensive than Twitter's, shows that CGTN began running promoted Facebook posts on Aug. 13, when it ran a video of a Hong Kong police officer who had been allegedly hurt by a 'petrol bomb.' CGTN has more than a dozen ads, some of which are being shown in the US, to push the idea that foreign influence is a major reason behind the demonstrations.”
"China blokkeert Wikipedia in alle talen", 16 juni 2019. Gearchiveerd op 4 september 2019. “Eind april stelde de Wikimedia Foundation vast dat Wikipedia niet meer toegankelijk was in China. Na onderzoek van ons dataverkeer kunnen we bevestigen dat Wikipedia in alle taalversies is geblokkeerd.”
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Twitter is displaying China-made ads attacking Hong Kong protesters. Engadget. Gearchiveerd op 20 augustus 2019. Geraadpleegd op 20 augustus 2019. “The ads try to portray the protests as 'escalating violence' and calls for 'order to be restored.' Other ads have highlighted alleged supporters of the Chinese 'motherland' and have pointed out Hong Kong's economic troubles from earlier in the year.”
Facebook and Twitter Say China Is Spreading Disinformation in Hong Kong. The New York Times. Gearchiveerd op 20 augustus 2019. Geraadpleegd op 20 augustus 2019. “Unlike Twitter, Facebook said it would not ban ads from state-owned media. The company said it would 'continue to look at our policies as they relate to state-owned media' and also closely examine ads that were flagged to it so it could determine if they violated its policies. China’s government, through its state media agencies, has been a big buyer of ads on Facebook, The New York Times has reported.”
China Spreads Propaganda to U.S. on Facebook, a Platform It Bans at Home. The New York Times. Gearchiveerd op 20 augustus 2019. Geraadpleegd op 20 augustus 2019. “As if to demonstrate the platform’s effectiveness, outside its borders China uses it to spread state-produced propaganda around the world, including the United States. So much do China’s government and companies value Facebook that the country is Facebook’s biggest advertising market in Asia, even as it is the only major country in the region that blocks the social network.”
"China blokkeert Wikipedia in alle talen", 16 juni 2019. Gearchiveerd op 4 september 2019. “Eind april stelde de Wikimedia Foundation vast dat Wikipedia niet meer toegankelijk was in China. Na onderzoek van ons dataverkeer kunnen we bevestigen dat Wikipedia in alle taalversies is geblokkeerd.”
Have You Seen These Ads About Hong Kong's Protests? China Certainly Hopes You Have. BuzzFeed News. Gearchiveerd op 20 augustus 2019. Geraadpleegd op 20 augustus 2019. “BuzzFeed News found nearly 50 different promoted tweets from the Twitter accounts of Xinhua News Agency, China’s official state-run press organization; the Chinese Communist Party–owned China Daily; and China Plus News, the English-language site of the state-owned China Radio International. Similar ads were also running on Facebook from Xinhua and CGTN, a state-owned 24-hour news channel that broadcasts in English.”
Twitter is displaying China-made ads attacking Hong Kong protesters. Engadget. Gearchiveerd op 20 augustus 2019. Geraadpleegd op 20 augustus 2019. “The ads try to portray the protests as 'escalating violence' and calls for 'order to be restored.' Other ads have highlighted alleged supporters of the Chinese 'motherland' and have pointed out Hong Kong's economic troubles from earlier in the year.”
Twitter ran paid ads from China's state news media criticizing the Hong Kong protests. Business Insider. Gearchiveerd op 21 augustus 2019. Geraadpleegd op 20 augustus 2019. “'Two months on, the escalating violence in Hong Kong has taken a heavy toll on the social order,' one tweet reads, adding that 'all walks of life in Hong Kong called for a brake to be put on the blatant violence and for order to be restored.' A second sponsored tweet portrayed the public sentiment in Hong Kong as at odds with the protests, saying that 'Hong Kong citizens call for stopping violence, ending chaos and restoring order in the city.'”
Have You Seen These Ads About Hong Kong's Protests? China Certainly Hopes You Have. BuzzFeed News. Gearchiveerd op 20 augustus 2019. Geraadpleegd op 20 augustus 2019. “Facebook's ad library, which is more comprehensive than Twitter's, shows that CGTN began running promoted Facebook posts on Aug. 13, when it ran a video of a Hong Kong police officer who had been allegedly hurt by a 'petrol bomb.' CGTN has more than a dozen ads, some of which are being shown in the US, to push the idea that foreign influence is a major reason behind the demonstrations.”
Facebook and Twitter Say China Is Spreading Disinformation in Hong Kong. The New York Times. Gearchiveerd op 20 augustus 2019. Geraadpleegd op 20 augustus 2019. “Unlike Twitter, Facebook said it would not ban ads from state-owned media. The company said it would 'continue to look at our policies as they relate to state-owned media' and also closely examine ads that were flagged to it so it could determine if they violated its policies. China’s government, through its state media agencies, has been a big buyer of ads on Facebook, The New York Times has reported.”
China Spreads Propaganda to U.S. on Facebook, a Platform It Bans at Home. The New York Times. Gearchiveerd op 20 augustus 2019. Geraadpleegd op 20 augustus 2019. “As if to demonstrate the platform’s effectiveness, outside its borders China uses it to spread state-produced propaganda around the world, including the United States. So much do China’s government and companies value Facebook that the country is Facebook’s biggest advertising market in Asia, even as it is the only major country in the region that blocks the social network.”
