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With more than 850 million internet users in China, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has become increasingly aggressive in internet censoring and blocking. Recently, The Epoch Times received an internal document of the CCP that showed municipalities in Henan province used human resources and materials to create hot topics or so-called “authoritative messages” to suppress negative public opinion.

In September 2016, 113 people in Shangcai county were wanted for impersonating soldiers in a nationwide wire fraud scheme. The media even exposed the fact that fraud had become a “business” in this very poor county and that each family in these local villages had tens of thousands of RMB in cash. This had obtained a great concern on the internet after the news was exposed. However, the hot topic of “the Cultural Festival of Shangcai County” suddenly appeared and was highly discussed. Slowly, people were distracted from the scandal. This seemingly unrelated “cultural festival” was recently proven to have been orchestrated by the local government to control public opinion.

Later, the internet commentators from Zhumadian city and Shangcai county forwarded a large amount of posts related to this “cultural festival” and also proactively set up discussions in relevant forums. Within 48 hours, more than 1,000 posts were commented and forwarded. At the time, there were more than 1,500 official internet commentators.

Moreover, 720 platforms in Zhumadian city participated in the online reviews at the time and more new media from the city also joined. Together they hyped up the hot topics to divert public attention. Tang Jingyuan, a commentator on current affairs residing in the U.S., indicated that this entire event showed that the use of lies to gain public support is deeply rooted in the marrow of the CCP.

“Creating incidents for new hot topics” is one of the ways the CCP suppresses negative public opinion. The internal document showed that another common tactic used to suppress information is publishing so-called “authoritative official information” that is full of lies.

The Epoch Times also made public “the Internet Assessment 2016-2017 Yearbook” of Shangqiu city and of Sanmenxia city in which instances of government occupying public opinion space to suppress negative reporting were evident. The authorities not only target the public when it comes to managing public opinion, but also demand an inte
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