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@fryan
Jun 6, 2022 • 15 tweets • 8 min read • Read on X
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🧵 How did foreign embassies/consulates in China & Hong Kong commemorate this year's #June4th #六四 #TiananmenSquareMassacre anniversary on social media?

These are only the examples we've come across. If we've missed any, please @ me.
First up, the Canadian Embassy in Beijing posted a picture of a candle on Weibo.

Helpfully, they cross-posted to Twitter & noted that it had been censored.

The German Embassy in Beijing posted a picture of a candle on WeChat, according to @YaxueCao

It was censored very quickly, apparently.

The British Embassy posted this article: 'Why is the Peterloo Massacre remembered in Britain?'

WeChat stopped users from being able to:

♢ copy the link
♢ send to chat
♢ share on Moments
♢ add to favs
♢ open in WeRead
♢ open in browser
♢ email it

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In Hong Kong, China's foreign ministry office sent warnings to a list of consulates "not to tweet/retweet or publicly say something about June 4," as one European diplomat told SCMP.

scmp.com/news/hong-kong… scmp.com/news/hong-kong…
Despite the warning, @EUinHKandMO posted this to Twitter & Facebook.



facebook.com/EUOfficeHongKo…
The Australian consulate posted this on Facebook.

facebook.com/AustraliaInHKM…
The Canadian consulate in Hong Kong posted this to Facbeook.

facebook.com/CanadainHKandM…
The US consulate in Hong Kong posted this:

facebook.com/USAinHKMacau/p…
The Polish consulate in Hong Kong posted this brilliant troll to Facebook.

facebook.com/PLinHongkong/p…
June 4th also happens to be a day of celebration for democracy in Poland, so they posted this to Facebook too.

facebook.com/PLinHongkong/p…
& they also forwarded the EU's post.

facebook.com/PLinHongkong/p…
In my 2018 paper on Weibo diplomacy & censorship, I recommended that embassies publish transparency reports about how much they're being censored by Beijing.

Since we're still waiting on that, we still have to do it manually.
If you have more examples, @ me & I'll add them to this thread.
The Swiss embassy posted this to Weibo and was censored according to @martinaldro

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Nov 26, 2023
China's influencer market is booming & foreigners are getting in on the action.

While many avoid politics, a growing cadre, tempted by traffic, profits & plaudits are aligning their content to CCP-approved narratives.

A 🧵 on the foreign vlogger to CCP propagandist pipeline.
The PRC’s censorship regime cloisters its ppl in an info environment that’s cut off from the rest of the world & primed with a nationalistic ideology.

Nationalism sells, & foreigners know it.

It's a shortcut to viral fame.
👆The guy smashing his iPhone after buying a Huawei is Bart Baker, a US YouTuber known for creating parody videos of famous songs.

He left his 10M+ YouTube subscribers in 2019 to operate exclusively on Chinese platforms where his content style took a dramatic turn.
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Nov 17, 2022
李子柒在 YouTube 上坐拥 1720 万粉丝，是至今为止粉丝最多的中国网红，但这个平台上还有数以千计的其他中国账户。

等等， YouTube在中国不是被屏蔽了吗？咋回事？

下面告诉你咋回事儿：🧵
长话短说，李子柒一类的网红是通过党国信任的，叫做MCN的机构发布视频的。

具体到李子柒，在她和国内MCN公司微念发生矛盾而停更前，她的海外视频是通过葡萄子（北京）文化传媒公司发布的。

葡萄子是一个YouTube 认证 MCN，位于北京，隶属于马来西亚娱乐公司 Prodigee 传媒。
MCN 👉 zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%9A…

葡萄子管理运营着 600 多个 YouTube中国账户，其中包括《人民日报》
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Nov 16, 2022
Chinese influencer Li Ziqi has 17.2 million followers on YouTube.

She's the biggest by far, but there are thousands of other China-based accounts on the platform.

But wait. Isn't YouTube blocked in China? What gives?

Here's how it all works. 🧵
The short answer is that influencers from Li Ziqi down go through special agencies that are trusted by the party-state.

When she was still posting videos, Li did it through WebTVAsia, a Beijing-based YouTube-certified MCN* owned by Malaysian entertainment company Prodigee Media.
*MCN = "Multi-Channel Network", btw. More on them here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-cha…

WebTVAsia operates more than 600 YouTube channels for PRC-based talent, including the People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the CCP.
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Oct 21, 2022
如果2021年，你花点时间看中国内容相关的推特，那你很有可能会遇到这两个姑娘。

中国党媒，外交官和一些洋五毛会告诉你，这只是个普通人的账号。

我们仔细研究了一下，其实不是这么回事儿。 🧵
在视频里这俩姑娘自称“大古丽”和“小古丽”，是两个“来自中国新疆的维吾尔族姐妹”，活跃在YouTube、推特、 Instagram 和 TikTok的“古丽讲新疆”账号。

当然这些平台在中国境内都被封掉了。
事实上，这俩姑娘都为成都一家机构工作，名叫“成都灰灰侠文化传播有限公司”，是一家深度参与涉疆宣传的公司。

她们在“成都灰灰侠”的招聘广告中：
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Oct 20, 2022
If you spent any time on China-watching Twitter in 2021, you probably came across these two women.

Party-state media, Chinese diplomats & foreign vloggers tried to make out they were just an ordinary account.

We took a closer look & found out that wasn't quite right. 🧵
The women, who introduce themselves in the above video as 'Elder Guli' & 'Younger Guli', two 'Uyghur sisters from Xinjiang', featured in the ‘Story of Xinjiang by Guli’ (SOXBG) set of accounts on YouTube, Twitter, Instagram & TikTok.

All of those platforms are blocked in China.
Actually, both women worked for a Chengdu-based agency, the name of which translates to ‘Chengdu Grey Man Culture Communications’ (成都灰灰侠文化传播有限公司)—a company heavily involved in Xinjiang-related propaganda work.

Here they are in a 'Chengdu Grey Man' recruitment ad:
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Aug 10, 2022
I genuinely understand the urge to write about how WeChat, despite all its problems, is still a good app in some ways.

When I was in China, I loved using it.
But despite all the important activity & civic engagement that ~can~ take place on it, that doesn't change the fact that it is a highly censored & surveilled space.
WeChat censored our former Prime Minister & then completely de-platformed him. (If you believe any of the other explanations, I have a bridge to sell you)

I honestly do not see how that is not the end of the discussion. It was unacceptable & we shouldn't stand for it.
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