On Thursday, Gu Feng, a former senior media figure in mainland China, published an article in an English-language newspaper, analyzing the history of the development of the world’s largest Internet beast, the Chinese Communist Party‘s (CCP) Internet Army, and exposing that it is controlled by the CCP and used to help the CCP achieve various goals and harm the world, both at Home and abroad.
Gu Feng’s article is translated as follows.
In the online world, there is a group of people who endanger the security and health of the Internet, known to Chinese netizens as “cyber Hackers. These groups include the Chinese Communist regime’s Internet giants, known in China as the “Fifty Cents Party.
These Internet giants pose a threat to personal data and national security. They are the front men for the CCP’s disinformation campaign, which has been involved in the COPID-19 pandemic, the Hong Kong anti-China protest movement, the 2020 elections in Taiwan and the 2020 elections in the United States, and other major international events.
The History of the CCP’s Internet Behemoth
The Chinese Communist Party’s Internet behemoth is one of the largest criminal organizations. According to historical data from major search engines, commercial behemoths on the Internet have been around since 2004.
Through analysis of online data, the CCP Internet behemoths can be divided into three stages of development.
The first stage was from 2004 to 2009, during which Time the CCP behemoths were mainly removing postings, selling and promoting, and helping others to promote.
The second stage was from 2010 to 2013, which was the business development stage of the CCP behemoth. During this phase, the scope of their business began to expand. Large Internet behemoth companies began to act as PR agents for individuals, corporations, local CCP party organizations, government agencies, and CCP NGOs in response to crises encountered on the Internet. During this phase, the Fifty Cents Party, a private Internet behemoth hired by the CCP, began to appear on the Internet to engage in public affairs.
The third phase runs from 2014 to 2021, during which the CCP behemoths transformed their operations. The CCP formally established the Central Internet Affairs Leading Group in February 2014, under the China Internet Administration (CAC) or the Office of the Central Internet Affairs Committee.
Five operational departments were established under the CAC: the Bureau of Internet Commentary Work, the Bureau of Internet Social Work, the Bureau of Mobile Network Management, the Bureau of Internet Security Coordination, and the Bureau of International Cooperation. Their responsibilities include Internet opinion monitoring, management, control of the Communist Party’s Internet behemoth, public relations related to Internet issues, overseas propaganda, and the Communist Party’s United Front.
After the CAC was established, it launched an Internet campaign to consolidate and control various independent civilian hacker and behemoth companies. At the same time, the CAC recruited tens of millions of college students to work as part-time Internet behemoths at major Chinese universities. The Central Committee for Political and Legal Affairs has recruited millions of prisoners in major prisons as full-time Internet behemoths. In this way, Internet hackers and trolls have gone from being “guerrillas” to a “regular army” controlled by the CCP.
Organizational Structure of the Communist Party’s Internet Behemoth
According to CCP insiders, the CCP attaches great importance to the organization and management of its Internet behemoths. The CCP has established special management organizations for its Internet army at all levels of government. Its personnel recruitment, training, task assignment, payments and meetings are conducted online.
The CCP’s Internet Behemoth consists of the following six categories of personnel: Communist Youth League members, social media influencers, college students, employees of Internet companies, prisoners, and the unemployed. They are paid based on the type of work they do and the number of postings they make. They have many types of job roles, mainly including conveners, technicians (hackers), writers, online commentators and opinion leaders. Behemoths are identified in two categories: domestic and overseas.
Chinese netizens despise the CCP’s Internet behemoths
The Chinese people dare not speak out against the 50 Cent Party, which the CCP spends huge amounts of public money to feed tens of millions of people every year.
The CCP requires China’s major portals to allow the Fifty Cents Party to silence critical voices, smear political dissidents, create false public opinion, cover up various CCP crimes, undermine social order and morality, fabricate the illusion of national prosperity, incite racial hatred, maliciously create rumors about other countries, falsify historical truths, and spread false information to deceive the public.
Whenever the articles of major CCP leaders appear on the Internet, the Internet behemoths almost always go on a rampage with flattering postings. Chinese netizens despise these fifty-cent parties, but the CCP regime treats their statements as public opinion.
The Chinese Communist Party’s Internet Army Has Become a Worldwide Malignant Tumor
With the globalization of today’s Internet, the CCP’s online army has long been a threat to the social security of countries around the world. In the cyber world, the CCP’s Internet behemoth is like a contagious disease that attacks countries around the world. For example, cyber hackers attack key government departments, scientific research institutions, large corporations and university websites to steal information. The Fifty Cents Party maliciously attacks and vilifies government leaders and anti-communists in other countries. The CCP regime’s social media mavens perpetrate cultural aggression on the Internet. In short, the Chinese Communist Party’s online army is using the freedom of speech in democratic countries to attack other countries.
As early as a decade ago, the United States identified Chinese Communist cyber attacks as a major issue in U.S.-China diplomacy, but the situation is worsening.
On March 18, the Biden administration held its first high-level dialogue with the Chinese Communist regime in Alaska, where Secretary of State Anthony Blinken met with top Chinese Communist foreign policy official Yang Jiechi and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. Blinken said, “The United States is deeply concerned about China’s actions, including in Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Taiwan, cyber attacks on the United States, and economic coercion against U.S. allies.”
The U.S. did not put the South China Sea or U.S.-China trade issues on the agenda, but instead made cyberattacks a key topic of the talks, demonstrating the extent of the damage caused to the U.S. by the Communist Party’s cyber army.
The Chinese Communist Party cyber army has also launched a fierce attack on U.S. social media.
Twitter “disclosed” the CCP regime’s “23,750 accounts” on June 12, 2020, which Twitter said “engaged in a series of manipulative and coordinated activities,” and on The tweets spread “geopolitical rhetoric in favor of the CCP, while continuing to promote deceptive narratives about political developments in Hong Kong,” “primarily in Chinese.
On September 22, 2020, Facebook also removed a network of fake CCP accounts that engaged in “coordinated dishonest behavior” in political discussions through “155 accounts, 11 pages, 9 groups, and 6 Instagram accounts. “. According to Facebook, their activities “originated in China and were primarily focused in the Philippines and Southeast Asia, as well as in the United States.
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