{"id":49491,"date":"2022-10-20T20:34:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T11:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/20\/china-using-influencers-to-whitewash-human-rights-abuses-report-finds"},"modified":"2022-10-20T20:34:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T11:34:20","slug":"china-using-influencers-to-whitewash-human-rights-abuses-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49491","title":{"rendered":"China using influencers to whitewash human rights abuses, report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media videos by people from the Uyghur community are part of a sophisticated propaganda campaign, thinktank says<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese Communist party is using social media influencers from troubled regions like Xinjiang, Tibet and Inner Mongolia to whitewash human rights abuses through an increasingly sophisticated propaganda campaign, a report has claimed.<\/p>\n<p>The report published on Thursday by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), described the videos by \u201cfrontier influencers\u201d as a growing part of Beijing\u2019s \u201cpropaganda arsenal\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/20\/china-using-influencers-to-whitewash-human-rights-abuses-report-finds\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media videos by people from the Uyghur community are part of a sophisticated propaganda campaign, thinktank saysThe Chinese Communist party is using social media influencers from troubled regions like Xinjiang, Tibet and Inner Mongolia to whitew&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,53,235,2052,42,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-human-rights","category-social-media","category-uyghurs","category-world-news","category-xinjiang"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49492,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49491\/revisions\/49492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}