Yep. You can see the 五毛党 all over western sites, too (Facebook in particular). They even have permanent adspace in... the NYTimes newspaper? That is a full spreadsheet of propaganda. The worrying thing now is that they're starting to become expansionist and their ideas being fed as far as Europe (Greece for example) with all that juicy money as an incentive... hard to escape really
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yea I largely stopped using any China sites. Was following a bit during coronavirus and I can say it’s really bad, basically unusable as discussions are constantly deleted or ruined by 五毛党
This is the new world we live in!
What does it mean ?
五毛党?
50 cent army. Basically a flood of millions of Chinese is supposedly paid 50 cents for every pro-Chinese propaganda they post around the internet, whether its Facebook comments or tweets or whatever. Realistically it's just a requirement in their jobs but the term just refers to those contrived, blindly pro CCP comments you find all over the place. they amount to a not-insignificant chunk of the entire internet's content. In English just: Wumao
The other day someone posted an advert on one of my FB group, it was fromsomeone on wechat offering RMB100 to expats in China to post videos on social media that plays down the Wuhan virurs. I thought that was absolutely hilarious.
I'm sure you're not eligible for it!!!
!engage 50
Hahah well thankfully I adblock... I dread to think what I'd see from 'targeted ads' on my page...
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