Facebook is taking money from China to promote Communist propaganda which denies atrocities against the Uyghur Muslims, an investigation has revealed.
The Silicon Valley behemoth pocketed Beijing’s cash to promote articles which downplayed what Washington has called a genocide in Xinjiang, according to <a style="font-weight: bold;" class="class" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" website Press Gazette.
China Daily and CGTN – the state-backed TV channel recently banned in the UK – have paid Mark Zuckerberg‘s firm just a few hundred dollars a time to promote posts to millions of users.
It comes as Facebook, worth £560 billion, was today accused of going to war with democracy as it banned Australians from sharing and accessing news on its website after Sydney threatened to force it to pay media companies for using their content.
Facebook charged China Daily less than $400 to beam this post to a million users.
It accuses Western media and politicians of ‘lies’ and ‘disinformation’ about the Uighur Muslims
Two more adverts boosted on Facebook by China Daily for small fees to downplay concerns about Xinjiang.
These adverts were later removed by Facebook but not before they reached millions of users
President Xi Jiping reportedly ordered officials in Xinjiang to respond to a 2014 terror attack in the province ‘with absolutely no mercy.’ US officials claim the insurgency has been used as an excuse to commit genocide
As Facebook withholds money from Australian media with one hand, so they take it from Chinese media firms with the other and beam Communist falsities to millions of people around the world.
They charged just $400 for https://winstarlink.com/jasa-social-media-management/ China Daily, Beijing’s propaganda newspaper and website, to promote an article in October which accused Western countries of ‘lies’ and ‘disinformation.’
Facebook’s advertising analytics website shows the advert was mainly targeted at young men in Nepal which borders Xinjiang.
It shows clips of Western commentators discussing the plight of the Uyghurs and says: ‘Politicians, think tanks and the media work together to align narratives that drive public discussion and pervade the public consciousness often with malevolent intent’.
In another China Daily-sponsored video, it calls reports on the internment camps in Xinjiang ‘completely false’ and ‘straight from the manual of Western media tricks.’
An investigation by <a style="font-weight: bold;" class="class" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" website Press Gazette uncovered how another China Daily post said: ‘The tale of an oppressed Xinjiang is a myth Western media refuse to give up.’
CGTN, which was taken off air in Britain earlier this month after the watchdog found it in breach of licensing rules on impartiality, paid Facebook to advertise a post which promoted ‘vocational training centres’ in Xinjiang.
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