China Hires As Many As 300,000 Internet Trolls To Make The Communist Party Look Good - Business Insi

[baajey]

I dont know about Chinese trolls but surely there are Indian trolls.

By their number, IQ and quality we can easily understand they are gov sponsored.

lungi einstein on the roll, eh ???

 

[TankMan]

Suspicious "wonder if he's a paid troll" post:
1) Our new tankX is out and from the figures it is 10x better than country Y's tank. Look at the deficiencies in the Y tank compared to our X tank.
2) country Y's Crime/Poverty/divorce rate is up!.

Well, almost every Indian poster here is paid then

As for the topic, the US is already doing this on a massive scale, spreading pro-US propaganda over the internet. Israel too, massively. It's no surprise that other countries like China are jumping on the bandwagon.
The internet is the new medium, its popularity and userbase is increasing rapidly. He who controls the internet controls minds. He who controls minds controls the world. It's the new psychological battlefield.

Richard Silverstein: The Israeli foreign ministry itself is asking volunteers to flood news websites with pro-Israel arguments and information | Comment is free | theguardian.com
Prime Minister's Office recruiting students to wage online hasbara battles - National Israel News | Haaretz
Israel To Pay Students For Pro-Israeli Social Media Propaganda
Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media | Technology | The Guardian
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/14/the-real-war-on-reality/?_r=0
US Military Admits Spending Millions to Study Manipulation of Social Media Washington's Blog

 

[SanjeevaniButi]

So this is the work from home and make $ schemes you keep hearing about

I have a pay pal account and I am willing to work for Chinese govt. Maybe one of the chinese posters can guide me to their boss

 

[JohnyD]

its a well known for years now...there are quite a big amount of those 1cents in PDF and many other forums!

 

[MarkovChain]

That sounds like a dream job. I'd do it for free!

 

[livingdead]

ahahahahahahah,
so im a paid CIA troll? lool dont mind him bro. what have i said that makes you believe im one? I have only been honest in my opinions on here(whule trying to keep my own personal bias aside), for this reason members here have accused me of being a western hegemonistic trool, others of being anti muslim/Ilam when i stated facts/made points they didnt like, others said i was Indian because i made comments Chinese, Pakistanis didnt like, others said i wasnt briotish that i am a chinese when i made comments they didnt like etc...etc. lool so which one i am finally? Just because somebody makes some comments that are not favorable towards your country, you immediately assume they are paid trolls lol. I dont blame you though, most asians cant seem to accept criticisms, for them they are always right, and cant do no wrong. If you dont agree with them , then you are automatically a troll or from a rival country.lol Iknow truth hurts though.lol So i dont blame you, for you are not the first memeber on here to make such accusations.....Keep it going, i have so much i dont care anymore. i will keep making my points whether you or other members like it or not.

Thats not my list.. I just tagged the people he mentioned in the post.. and you are one of them..
If I had to accuse you, I would say MI-6 agent or something sexier..

 

[Skywalker]

I wonder how many Indian govt. have actually hired to troll on PDF.

 

[osama zafar]

Laul.

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Please have some guidelines before Chinese peaceful nation and their public is discussed in open forums

We need to respect China on this form

GREAT china

 

[Rent]

The Chinese government doesn't just censor its internet. It actually pays people to leave fake comments that make the country - and its communist regime - look good.

After reading "Blocked on Weibo" by Chinese researcher Jason Q. Ng, we recently learned China's version of Twitter, Sina Weibo, banned the phrase "50 cents." It references China's "50 Cent Party," a group of ordinary citizens hired by the government to post internet comments spinning that day's news in China's favor.

These hired guns supposedly earn 50 cents (or .5 Yuan) for every post. While the Chinese government has only implicitly acknowledged their existence, the brigade likely functions at various levels, with some commenters even employed by websites or internet providers themselves.

An estimated 250,000 to 300,000 belong to the "party," researchers from Harvard University wrote in the American Political Science Review in May 2013. "The size and sophistication of the Chinese government's program to selectively censor the expressed views of the Chinese people is unprecedented in recorded world history," the authors wrote.

In 2011 an internal directive for 50 Cent members leaked, China Digital Times reported. The assigned tasks for 50 Cent members include making America the "target of criticism" as well as using "the bloody and tear-stained history" of China to create pro-Party sentiments. The goal is to prevent democratic encroachment from its sovereign island neighbor, Taiwan.

British magazine the New Statesman actually tracked down one of these hired propagandists in 2012. The anonymous 26-year-old said he had "too many usernames" to count and that he recieved an email from the local internet publicity office every morning explaining what news he should focus on that day.

"It's kind of psychological ... You can make a bad thing sound even worse, make an elaborate account, and make people think it's nonsense when they see it," he told the Statesman's Ai Weiwei.

China's censorship program, the Golden Shield Project, known to the West as the "Great Firewall," has existed for nearly a decade. It blocks foreign websites that threaten the Communist message, as well as surveils and filters content on home soil. Journalists and netizens alike who don't abide by the rules face prison - or worse.

Aside from that, however, the government started to add its own comments to the mix in 2005, when anti-Japanese protests erupted across China, The Economist reports. Controlling the internet wasn't enough. The party needed to "use" the internet, as then-president Hu Jintao said in 2007. And Sina Weibo's birth in 2009 forced the 50-Centers to become even more active.

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology took the party's abilities a step further in 2014, setting up a training center, according toRadio Free Asia. The program intends to teach aspiring members how to direct and control online discussions.

"There was never this sort of system or professionalization in the past," independent website publisher Wang Jinxiang told RFA. "It seems that this is a new set of qualifications."

And the new initiatives appear to have worked. China's censorship was alive and well during recent protests in Hong Kong.

China Hires As Many As 300,000 Internet Trolls To Make The Communist Party Look Good | Business Insider India

That is a lot of Trolls.

 

[Shinigami]

lol look at the loyal pakistanis to their rescue

Please have some guidelines before Chinese peaceful nation and their public is discussed in open forums

We need to respect China on this form

GREAT china

 

[Cyberian]

Everyone loves their country.

 

[Aepsilons]

There are some chinese members who have accused you as a "spy" LOL

ahahahahahahah,
so im a paid CIA troll? lool dont mind him bro. what have i said that makes you believe im one? I have only been honest in my opinions on here(whule trying to keep my own personal bias aside), for this reason members here have accused me of being a western hegemonistic trool, others of being anti muslim/Ilam when i stated facts/made points they didnt like, others said i was Indian because i made comments Chinese, Pakistanis didnt like, others said i wasnt briotish that i am a chinese when i made comments they didnt like etc...etc. lool so which one i am finally? Just because somebody makes some comments that are not favorable towards your country, you immediately assume they are paid trolls lol. I dont blame you though, most asians cant seem to accept criticisms, for them they are always right, and cant do no wrong. If you dont agree with them , then you are automatically a troll or from a rival country.lol Iknow truth hurts though.lol So i dont blame you, for you are not the first memeber on here to make such accusations.....Keep it going, i have so much i dont care anymore. i will keep making my points whether you or other members like it or not.

That is a lot of Trolls.

 

[Jungibaaz]

Still doesn't come close to the number + dedication of Hasbara trolls. At first I didn't believe it, spend some time on youtube and the internet on related topics and it becomes obvious that these people are real.

 

[Mercenary]

Not surprised.

300,000 trolls can leave a lot of troll messages.

I wonder if they are trained just to post glorious messages of China or actually engage in Troll wars with other posters?