China Spreads Propaganda to U.S. on Facebook, a Platform It Bans at Home<br />China’s propaganda efforts are in the spotlight with President Trump visiting the country<br />and American lawmakers investigating foreign powers’ use of technology to sway voters in the United States.<br />"Every person and nation has its own culture and customs, no need to interfere." Another woman<br />addresses America directly: "Don’t be so self-important and arrogant." NOV. 7, 2017<br />Even children are asked about the relationship between the United States and China.<br />During Facebook’s time in the congressional hot seat last week, Senator John Kennedy, a Republican<br />from Louisiana, asked whether China had also run ads to affect the United States election.<br />Facebook executives even set up a page to show CCTV, one of Beijing’s chief propaganda outlets,<br />how to use the platform during President Xi Jinping’s 2015 trip to the United States.<br />It also hasn’t been reluctant to use it as a soapbox where China’s relationship with the United States is concerned.<br />"They don’t respect China and use South Korea to spy on China," says another.<br />As if to demonstrate the platform’s effectiveness, outside its borders China uses it<br />to spread state-produced propaganda around the world, including the United States.
