The Cantonese section of our website reports that the U.S. account of Xinhua News Agency (XNA), China’s official media outlet, on the social media platform Facebook has seen a dramatic increase in the number of hits, with the largest increase being a hundredfold.
At the same time, Xinhua’s German account on Facebook has fared little better, with only a single-digit number of likes.
According to industry analysts, this unusual growth in Xinhua’s U.S. account is mainly due to advertising on Facebook.
In the United States, the president of the human rights organization Humanity China, Zhou Fengzuo, told us that Xinhua’s Facebook account was opened before the US election, and that there might be a motive to influence the election.
On the other hand, the Facebook page of our station, as well as the Facebook page of the Hong Kong-based private media outlet Standpoint News, has seen its click-through rate plummet.
Some industry analysts say that the New York Post previously reported that Facebook’s headquarters has citizens of Chinese background who are in charge of programming such as “hate speech” and other monitoring programs, which may be censoring speech.
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