i dunno about that. nobody in the west is talking about hk protests or how china routinely do tank training manoeuvres inside Taiwan straight... yet everyone is siding against Israel genocide.
1. A successful disinformation campaign on the Hong Kong protests could have e.g. made people perceive protestors as violent terrorists, but there's been no such shift in perception. The topic simply stopped being discussed because nothing exciting has happened recently.
2. There are like 2 billion Muslims worldwide. Any Chinese disinformation campaign is going to be dwarfed by the scale of organic posts.
for 1 you're thinking like western states which infiltrate Pacific protests with plains cloth offices and start breaking stuff to justify a response. china don't do that. they show up in full force from the get go. branding Pacific forces as terrorists is western view point. so not a goal you should measure their campaign.
2. i can't even start to reply without going so basic this becomes a blog post. sorry
Then what do you think the goal of their disinformation campaign was? Given you say they are the opposite of bad at it, I guess that means you think they achieved their goal, so can you give examples of that successful disinformation campaign?
What I would like to one day understand is why Russia is so good at disinformation. The amount of literal talking points that I hear smart but uninformed people repeat is frustrating.
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2. There are like 2 billion Muslims worldwide. Any Chinese disinformation campaign is going to be dwarfed by the scale of organic posts.
2. i can't even start to reply without going so basic this becomes a blog post. sorry
Then what do you think the goal of their disinformation campaign was? Given you say they are the opposite of bad at it, I guess that means you think they achieved their goal, so can you give examples of that successful disinformation campaign?