Steven Lee Myers & Paul Mozur, The Independent: China’s information war is trying to turn its citizens against Hong Kong protesters
China has manipulated the context of images and videos to undermine the protesters
When a projectile struck a Hong Kong woman in the eye this week as protesters clashed with the police, China responded quickly.
Its state television network reported that the woman had been injured not by one of the police’s beanbag rounds, but by a protester.
The network’s website went further: it posted what it said was a photo of the woman counting out cash on a Hong Kong sidewalk – insinuating, as Chinese reports have claimed before, that the protesters are merely paid provocateurs.
The assertion was more than just spin or fake news. The Communist Party exerts overwhelming control over media content inside China’s so-called Great Firewall.
It is now using it as a cudgel in an information war over the Hong Kong protests.
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WNU Editor: The Chinese are masters when it comes to using disinformation and propaganda. China's 'Great Firewall' insures that an opposing view can never be introduced, and we are seeing it right now in real time when it comes to Hong Kong (see above video)..
