{"id":16810,"date":"2025-03-16T16:35:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T16:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16810"},"modified":"2025-03-16T16:35:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T16:35:19","slug":"why-is-youtube-boosting-anti-us-pro-chinese-communist-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16810","title":{"rendered":"Why is YouTube boosting anti-US, pro-Chinese communist propaganda?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;search engine optimization appears to be aiding pro-China, anti-U.S. content in a way it did not just a few months ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This would not be the first time China has employed such propaganda tactics on YouTube, even though the platform is banned within China. In a 2021 report, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute described how \u201cthe Chinese Communist Party uses foreign social media influencers to shape and push messages domestically and internationally about Xinjiang\u201d \u2014 where China is committing an ongoing genocide against one of its minority populations \u2014 \u201cthat are aligned with its own preferred narratives.\u201d The pro-Chinese government influencers mentioned in the report match some of those that come up in our search results on YouTube when searching for \u201cChina.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2023, the same institute found a coordinated influence campaign originating on YouTube that was promoting pro-China and anti-U.S. narratives. A recent article in the Guardian may offer a glimpse into what is happening. It found that \u201cAfter requests from the governments of Russia and China, Google has removed content such as YouTube videos.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/international\/5155350-youtube-promoting-pro-china\">https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/international\/5155350-youtube-promoting-pro-china<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;search engine optimization appears to be aiding pro-China, anti-U.S. content in a way it did not just a few months ago.<\/p>\n<p>This would not be the first time China has employed such propaganda tactics on YouTube, even though the platform is banned within China. In a 2021 report, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute described how \u201cthe Chinese Communist Party uses foreign social media influencers to shape and push messages domestically and internationally about Xinjiang\u201d \u2014 where China is committing an ongoing genocide against one of its minority populations \u2014 \u201cthat are aligned with its own preferred narratives.\u201d The pro-Chinese government influencers mentioned in the report match some of those that come up in our search results on YouTube when searching for \u201cChina.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, the same institute found a coordinated influence campaign originating on YouTube that was promoting pro-China and anti-U.S. narratives. A recent article in the Guardian may offer a glimpse into what is happening. It found that \u201cAfter requests from the governments of Russia and China, Google has removed content such as YouTube videos.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/international\/5155350-youtube-promoting-pro-china\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1356,91,89,875,848,763,134,328,1584,1896],"class_list":["post-16810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-algorithms","tag-censorship","tag-china","tag-free-speech","tag-freedom-of-speech","tag-google","tag-propaganda","tag-social-media","tag-speech","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16811,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16810\/revisions\/16811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}