Stranagor
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The online ultra-patriots who have thrived in this highly controlled environment have unsurprisingly become party darlings.
Many of the highest ranking Weibo accounts for news commentary and national security matters are operated by such patriotic opinion leaders. These include Hu Xijin, former editor-in-chief of the Global Times tabloid, Guyan Muchan, an influencer who often writes commentaries on international events, and Sima Nan, well-known for anti-U.S. views.
They usually label themselves “news commentators” or “national security experts” on their Weibo pages, even though they generally do not offer detailed knowledge of defense or military subjects. Instead, they frequently jump on topics such as COVID-19 deaths in the U.S., “foreign influence” on the Chinese internet, and unsupported allegations that Washington has built bioweapons labs in Ukraine.
Nikkei extracted data from about 90 accounts with frequent patriotic posts on Weibo, and examined interactions between those accounts and media accounts over the past few years.
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Interesting read. Eye-opener.
Full infographic story is in the link below:
Many of the highest ranking Weibo accounts for news commentary and national security matters are operated by such patriotic opinion leaders. These include Hu Xijin, former editor-in-chief of the Global Times tabloid, Guyan Muchan, an influencer who often writes commentaries on international events, and Sima Nan, well-known for anti-U.S. views.
They usually label themselves “news commentators” or “national security experts” on their Weibo pages, even though they generally do not offer detailed knowledge of defense or military subjects. Instead, they frequently jump on topics such as COVID-19 deaths in the U.S., “foreign influence” on the Chinese internet, and unsupported allegations that Washington has built bioweapons labs in Ukraine.
Nikkei extracted data from about 90 accounts with frequent patriotic posts on Weibo, and examined interactions between those accounts and media accounts over the past few years.
...
Interesting read. Eye-opener.
Full infographic story is in the link below:
Their utter irrationality, obscenity and genocidal violence. Below is a presentation by the generally sensible India-origin citizen journalist Dhruv Rathee here interviewing Mahavir, a former member of the notorious IT Cell of the BJP, the fascist, genocidal and terrorist party ruling India. Mahavir did this interview at considerable risk to his life :
And I read some days ago that they had filed a "money laundering" charge against him. Somehow the Supreme Court has removed UAPA from his charge list but there remain others. It is not easy to be jouranlisting in Modi's New India. 
