Borrowing mouths to speak on Xinjiang | Australian Strategic Policy Institute | ASPI
▻https://www.aspi.org.au/report/borrowing-mouths-speak-xinjiang
This report explores how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses foreign social media influencers to shape and push messages domestically and internationally about Xinjiang that are aligned with its own preferred narratives.
Our research also examines how the CCP’s use of foreign influencers presents a growing challenge to global social media platforms, and in particular their efforts to identify and label state-affiliated accounts.
This report focuses on the promotion of foreign influencers who disseminate content about Xinjiang on US-based social media and content networks, including YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, as well as on Chinese platforms such as Bilibili. The report analyses this unique online influencer ecosystem and examines three in-depth case studies with a focus on Xinjiang-focused foreign influencer content and the amplification of that content by Chinese state entities.
Fergus Ryan sur Twitter : “Thrilled to launch ’Borrowing mouths to speak on Xinjiang’, a new ASPI_ICPC paper I co-authored with @arielbogle, @Nrg8000, @AlbertYZhang & @DariImpio! ▻https://t.co/RpzfZOKQQt 🎨 by the brilliant @badiucao Here are some of the key findings 🧵👇 ▻https://t.co/eOGx9wlgTU” / Twitter
▻https://twitter.com/fryan/status/1470614559102701570
