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BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | China's internet 'spin doctors'

China's '50-cent party' posters

By Michael Bristow
BBC News, Beijing

China is using an increasing number of paid "internet commentators" in a sophisticated attempt to control public opinion.

These commentators are used by government departments to scour the internet for bad news - and then negate it.

They post comments on websites and forums that spin bad news into good in an attempt to shape public opinion.


Chinese leaders seem aware that the internet - the only public forum where views can be freely expressed - needs close attention.

China's Communist Party leaders have long sought to sway public opinion by controlling what the media can report.

That policy was extended to the internet, and many websites are blocked by a system sometimes dubbed the "great firewall of China".


Rumours and opinions

But cyberspace - where views can be expressed instantly and anonymously - is not as easy to control as traditional news outlets.

Comments, rumours and opinions can be quickly spread between internet groups in a way that makes it hard for the government to censor. So instead of just trying to prevent people from having their say, the government is also attempting to change they way they think.

To do this, they use specially trained - and ideologically sound - internet commentators.

They have been dubbed the "50-cent party" because of how much they are reputed to be paid for each positive posting (50 Chinese cents; $0.07; £0.05).

"Almost all government departments face criticism that is beyond their control," said Xiao Qiang, of the University of California at Berkeley.

"There is nothing much they can do, other than organise their own spinning teams to do their public relations," said the journalism professor, who monitors China.

Spin machine

A document released by the public security bureau in the city of Jiaozuo in Henan province boasts of the success of this approach.

It retells the story of one disgruntled citizen who posted an unfavourable comment about the police on a website after being punished for a traffic offence.

One of the bureau's internet commentators reported this posting to the authorities within 10 minutes of it going up.

The bureau then began to spin, using more than 120 people to post their own comments that neatly shifted the debate.

"Twenty minutes later, most postings supported the police - in fact many internet users began to condemn the original commentator," said the report.

These internet opinion-formers obviously need to show loyalty and support to the authorities. They also need other skills, as a document from the hygiene department in the city of Nanning in Guangxi province makes clear.

"[They] need to possess relatively good political and professional qualities, and have a pioneering and enterprising spirit," the document said.

They also need to be able to react quickly, it went on.

'Tens of thousands'

The practice of hiring these commentators was started a couple of years ago by local governments which found it hard to control public opinion.

They could not rely on Beijing to monitor and block every single piece of news about their localities, so they came up with their own solution.

Internet commentators have now become widespread, according to experts. Some estimate that there are now tens of thousands of them.

There are also reports that special centres have been set up to train China's new army of internet spin doctors.

Their job is more important than it would be elsewhere in the world.

"Politically, the internet is more important in China than in other societies because it's the only public space where people can express themselves," said Professor Xiao.

That is a point that has not escaped Chinese President Hu Jintao.

When he chatted online in an internet forum earlier this year he said it was important to set up "a new pattern of media guidance" for the internet.

China's teams of state-sponsored commentators have a lot of work ahead of them.
 
What’s the fuss about it?

If anyone goes to Chinese internet, he/she must notice that couple of guys must be paid by RAW to be there. They seem on line 24/7, and they repeat the same trite ranting all over again and again. They spread their false “witness” to everybody that everything in India is perfectly better than that in China. They even went to such a ridiculous stage as to claim that even high illiteracy in India is a good sign of a more advanced society, because people have freedom to choose not to read. :rofl: And their shameless face must posses a skin with the thickness of one inch, if not more.

If virus can be spread, why can not medicine be distributed?

Again, well done China, especially in front of a lying chorus!

PS, some Chinese mods are too lenient towards those foreign agents.
 
What’s the fuss about it?

If anyone goes to Chinese internet, he/she must notice that couple of guys must be paid by RAW to be there. They seem on line 24/7, and they repeat the same trite ranting all over again and again. They spread their false “witness” to everybody that everything in India is perfectly better than that in China. They even went to such a ridiculous stage as to claim that even high illiteracy in India is a good sign of a more advanced society, because people have freedom to choose not to read. :rofl: And their shameless face must posses a skin with the thickness of one inch, if not more.

If virus can be spread, why can not medicine be distributed?

Again, well done China, especially in front of a lying chorus!

PS, some Chinese mods are too lenient towards those foreign agents.

it fully proves ow limited and poor your knowledge about Chiense society is!


DO you really how such a "story" comes out?


In chinese websites ,pro-western CHinese and pro-CCP CHinese are arguing and scolding each other everyday.

When the both parties are pissing each other during website arguing,either lable each other bad and ugly tags.

For example,pro-western Chinese are taged by pro-CCP chinese as "western cyber-spies and JY[derived from "Jingying(elite)" ]"

Pro-CCP Chinese are taged by pro-western people as " Fenqing(Furious ****s) and Wu-mao-Dang[50-cent earners].


The article obviously comes from the tag "Wu-Mao-Dang"[50-cent earners].which means the guys who can earn 50 cents when they flatter Chinese government once in websites.

But In fact, "Wu-Mao-Dang" is nothing but a word for political-pissing,just like "Toledo", "Whig" and "Democ rats"
 
Gpit from where you come with such statements like this:
If anyone goes to Chinese internet, he/she must notice that couple of guys must be paid by RAW to be there. They seem on line 24/7, and they repeat the same trite ranting all over again and again. They spread their false “witness” to everybody that everything in India is perfectly better than that in China.
Just ranting or what? Any prooft of what you are saying:

First the paper is published in UK not in India and it says that:
A document released by the public security bureau in the city of Jiaozuo in Henan province boasts of the success of this approach.
So your government is so scared of listening anything against that they have to come up with something like this, this means there is a lot of wrong here.

They even went to such a ridiculous stage as to claim that even high illiteracy in India is a good sign of a more advanced society,
Stick to the topic this is about chinese government trying to manipulate the minds of citizens.
 
They spread their false “witness” to everybody that everything in India is perfectly better than that in China.

False witness? The world knows made in India is ALWAYS better than made in China.

Does China really have the know how and technology to build military hardware? Yeah, saw a J-10 plane but it was a toy at a Shanghai department store. So, don't understand why India is so paranoid about China.
 
it fully proves ow limited and poor your knowledge about Chiense society is!


DO you really how such a "story" comes out?


In chinese websites ,pro-western CHinese and pro-CCP CHinese are arguing and scolding each other everyday.

When the both parties are pissing each other during website arguing,either lable each other bad and ugly tags.

For example,pro-western Chinese are taged by pro-CCP chinese as "western cyber-spies and JY[derived from "Jingying(elite)" ]"

Pro-CCP Chinese are taged by pro-western people as " Fenqing(Furious ****s) and Wu-mao-Dang[50-cent earners].


The article obviously comes from the tag "Wu-Mao-Dang"[50-cent earners].which means the guys who can earn 50 cents when they flatter Chinese government once in websites.

But In fact, "Wu-Mao-Dang" is nothing but a word for political-pissing,just like "Toledo", "Whig" and "Democ rats"

Badguy, the article is talking about how CCP is paying certain people to write the good from the bad. And you have just turns those people into a political party, Like the Whig and Democrates. I smell a paradox, just twist even further what the article was saying.
 
Badguy, the article is talking about how CCP is paying certain people to write the good from the bad. And you have just turns those people into a political party, Like the Whig and Democrates. I smell a paradox, just twist even further what the article was saying.


You indian are so enjoying talking about China,We love our "unfree country",That's it ,just like your indian love your "free country" ,enjoying your lives ,we are very happy for you,your "free country" take very good care of you indian,you free country rather spending 2B $ to rebuilt a AC to protect all free indian than giving them a place to live ,good for you


The largest slum in Asian, more than half of the Mumbai citizens are living here ,the biggest economic city in india...... don't need to control anything... Clean up your own mess before worry about ours

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So does this pictures jutify that CCP can twist any news to suit it's purpose?
 
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So does this pictures jutify that CCP can twist any news to suit it's purpose?

yeah,you got me ,this slum is actully in Shanghai, and BBC' reports are all about truth without any bias,Indian media have no intention to defame China in order to divert your attention from your own mess
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Guys that is ok but the guys is taking reference from a paper published by Government. I think it is not a good practice.
 
Guys that is ok but the guys is taking reference from a paper published by Government. I think it is not a good practice.

we have over 2000 newspapers in China, only 10% are national newspapers,and you indian can barely speak a single chinese word ,how do you know our national newspapers' reports are nothing but lies
 
we have over 2000 newspapers in China, only 10% are national newspapers,and you indian can barely speak a single chinese word ,how do you know our national newspapers' reports are nothing but lies

I hadn't got what this news report has to do with we Indians not knowing Chinese. I posted the news which says Chinese government is paying people to make the opinion. It is ok in democracy where you have to do election campaign and all, but why in China there is only one party which will rule. And if everything is ok then why to hire the spin guys.
 
I hadn't got what this news report has to do with we Indians not knowing Chinese. I posted the news which says Chinese government is paying people to make the opinion. It is ok in democracy where you have to do election campaign and all, but why in China there is only one party which will rule. And if everything is ok then why to hire the spin guys.

Do you know india is a larger economic entity than china 30 years ago..... but now 1:3,we have an old saying in china ,一个和尚有水喝,两个和尚抢水喝,三个和尚没水喝(it means one buddhist monk have enough water ,two buddhist monks have to fight for the water ,when it comes to three buddhist monks ,they will all die),Democracy is a good thing indeed,but it doesn't mean you are a real democracy counrty just because you have two or three partys fighting for ruling your country,Democracy is much more than that, take Mumbai as a example,do you think it's democracy while 6.3 million Mumbai citizens are living in the slum. what's the purpose of the election,it's all about making our lives better ,as a developing country ,any other country did better job than china? we have all kinds of elections in china ,even the class president in primary schools ,we have 3000 voters in the president election, and every single voter is elected from 220 thousand people,more than half of them are sewer cleaner,farmer,steeler,etc.just the normal people like us ,they vote for president,and they vote for all kind of policies,one party system is not much different with the your election.I think it's even better ,we already prove that in a comparison between india(don't wanna do this ,but china and india are the only two countries with over 1B people) .who says everything is ok in China? can you find a chinese article reporting like that ?show me.
 
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You guys are really too much. The question is your government is paying guys to turn the opinion towards them? And you are running towards India? Why you guys can't stick to the topic rather then running behind India. Can't you guys put a single point without finger pointing towards India?
 
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You guys are really too much. The question is your government is paying guys to turn the opinion towards them? And you are running towards India? Why you guys can't stick to the topic rather then running behind India. Can't you guys put a single point without finger pointing towards India?
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can you tell me when you indian guys say anything in favor of China? In your mind , everything in China is wrong, that is why we are running towards india. care about your own business!We knew there are some things to improve in China, we also accept well-meaning criticism from friends, but you guys just want to defame China. So if you guys are so fond of pointing finger at China, of course , we will put india here to remind you , mind your own business.
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