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Spent a little time looking at CGTN's influencer studios. How they operate. Some tricks they use, and how it is helping shape the outlet's future digital strategy.
CGTN and its influencer studios
Social media sleeper accounts. Evading Facebook advertising rules. Teaching university lectures. These are some ways China's biggest media outlet is advancing its propaganda aims.
open.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Spent a little time looking at CGTN's influencer studios. How they operate. Some tricks they use, and how it is helping shape the outlet's future digital strategy.
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Amazon Kindle currently has my new book availalbe for FREE as an e-book online right now! Buy it now for $0.00 before they change it back!
Link: shorturl.at/uPZC3
Link: shorturl.at/uPZC3
November 10, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Amazon Kindle currently has my new book availalbe for FREE as an e-book online right now! Buy it now for $0.00 before they change it back!
Link: shorturl.at/uPZC3
Link: shorturl.at/uPZC3
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"Keeping Taiwan’s Internet Free: Inside the Open Culture Foundation’s Fight for Transparency and Rights" by Antonio Prokscha
Keeping Taiwan’s Internet Free: Inside the Open Culture Foundation’s Fight for Transparency and Rights | New Bloom Magazine
Taiwan’s democracy is increasingly defined by what happens online. As cyberattacks, surveillance, and opaque data practices test the boundaries of digital freedom, the Open Culture Foundation (OCF)…
newbloommag.net
October 24, 2025 at 10:33 AM
"Keeping Taiwan’s Internet Free: Inside the Open Culture Foundation’s Fight for Transparency and Rights" by Antonio Prokscha
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Plugging CDT again, critical resource for me and so many others as we learned about China. They're $1.8k away from a 10k goal to keep the lights on. Click through and make a donation (even better, make a recurring donation), will be your best use of 90 seconds all day.
In recent months, we have lost a significant portion of our funding. Yet we remain committed to helping the world better understand China at this critical juncture in global politics. We are asking for your help to keep our websites up and running.
giving.chinadigitaltimes.net/page/serverc...
giving.chinadigitaltimes.net/page/serverc...
Keep CDT Online: Donate for Server Expenses
China Digital Times (CDT) is a non-profit organization that relies on institutional and individual donations to sustain our operations. In recent months, we have lost a significant portion of our inst...
giving.chinadigitaltimes.net
July 8, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Plugging CDT again, critical resource for me and so many others as we learned about China. They're $1.8k away from a 10k goal to keep the lights on. Click through and make a donation (even better, make a recurring donation), will be your best use of 90 seconds all day.
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All praise for @chinadigitaltimes.net aside, let me say that it makes me absolutely f-cking furious that they have to put their bowl out for $10K.
It's a sum that is absolutely inconsequential in comparison to the value CDT provides.
It's 1/4 year kindergarten tuition at a Beijing int'l school.
It's a sum that is absolutely inconsequential in comparison to the value CDT provides.
It's 1/4 year kindergarten tuition at a Beijing int'l school.
In recent months, we have lost a significant portion of our funding. Yet we remain committed to helping the world better understand China at this critical juncture in global politics. We are asking for your help to keep our websites up and running.
giving.chinadigitaltimes.net/page/serverc...
giving.chinadigitaltimes.net/page/serverc...
Keep CDT Online: Donate for Server Expenses
China Digital Times (CDT) is a non-profit organization that relies on institutional and individual donations to sustain our operations. In recent months, we have lost a significant portion of our inst...
giving.chinadigitaltimes.net
July 3, 2025 at 6:50 AM
All praise for @chinadigitaltimes.net aside, let me say that it makes me absolutely f-cking furious that they have to put their bowl out for $10K.
It's a sum that is absolutely inconsequential in comparison to the value CDT provides.
It's 1/4 year kindergarten tuition at a Beijing int'l school.
It's a sum that is absolutely inconsequential in comparison to the value CDT provides.
It's 1/4 year kindergarten tuition at a Beijing int'l school.
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I just donated to cover China Digital Times’ @chinadigitaltimes.net server costs for the year.
As a China researcher, I rely on their work heavily.
If you care about cutting through censorship and propaganda, consider supporting them too.
giving.chinadigitaltimes.net/page/FUNGRHB...
As a China researcher, I rely on their work heavily.
If you care about cutting through censorship and propaganda, consider supporting them too.
giving.chinadigitaltimes.net/page/FUNGRHB...
Keep CDT Online: Donate for Server Expenses
China Digital Times (CDT) is a non-profit organization that relies on institutional and individual donations to sustain our operations. In recent months, we have lost a significant portion of our inst...
giving.chinadigitaltimes.net
July 2, 2025 at 11:23 PM
I just donated to cover China Digital Times’ @chinadigitaltimes.net server costs for the year.
As a China researcher, I rely on their work heavily.
If you care about cutting through censorship and propaganda, consider supporting them too.
giving.chinadigitaltimes.net/page/FUNGRHB...
As a China researcher, I rely on their work heavily.
If you care about cutting through censorship and propaganda, consider supporting them too.
giving.chinadigitaltimes.net/page/FUNGRHB...
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A critical resource, under threat because of DOGE cuts. No group is better at finding cracks in the Great Firewall. If you think it’s important to understand China, consider donating
In recent months, we have lost a significant portion of our funding. Yet we remain committed to helping the world better understand China at this critical juncture in global politics. We are asking for your help to keep our websites up and running.
giving.chinadigitaltimes.net/page/serverc...
giving.chinadigitaltimes.net/page/serverc...
Keep CDT Online: Donate for Server Expenses
China Digital Times (CDT) is a non-profit organization that relies on institutional and individual donations to sustain our operations. In recent months, we have lost a significant portion of our inst...
giving.chinadigitaltimes.net
July 2, 2025 at 12:18 AM
A critical resource, under threat because of DOGE cuts. No group is better at finding cracks in the Great Firewall. If you think it’s important to understand China, consider donating
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Done.
When I 1st started working on China topics, I'd bemoan the state of Chinese studies by saying that "Anyone who regularly reads @chinadigitaltimes.net 's front page knew more than 90% of "China Watchers".
Years later, I realized this said more about how awesome CDT was than anything else.
When I 1st started working on China topics, I'd bemoan the state of Chinese studies by saying that "Anyone who regularly reads @chinadigitaltimes.net 's front page knew more than 90% of "China Watchers".
Years later, I realized this said more about how awesome CDT was than anything else.
In recent months, we have lost a significant portion of our funding. Yet we remain committed to helping the world better understand China at this critical juncture in global politics. We are asking for your help to keep our websites up and running.
giving.chinadigitaltimes.net/page/serverc...
giving.chinadigitaltimes.net/page/serverc...
Keep CDT Online: Donate for Server Expenses
China Digital Times (CDT) is a non-profit organization that relies on institutional and individual donations to sustain our operations. In recent months, we have lost a significant portion of our inst...
giving.chinadigitaltimes.net
July 2, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Done.
When I 1st started working on China topics, I'd bemoan the state of Chinese studies by saying that "Anyone who regularly reads @chinadigitaltimes.net 's front page knew more than 90% of "China Watchers".
Years later, I realized this said more about how awesome CDT was than anything else.
When I 1st started working on China topics, I'd bemoan the state of Chinese studies by saying that "Anyone who regularly reads @chinadigitaltimes.net 's front page knew more than 90% of "China Watchers".
Years later, I realized this said more about how awesome CDT was than anything else.
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Over the years, I’ve made a habit of reading China Digital Times before doing my own research on the Chinese internet. The CDT team is remarkably quick and skilled at capturing the most valuable bits of information drifting—then quickly vanishing—in the vast, chaotic sea of China’s online space.
In recent months, we have lost a significant portion of our funding. Yet we remain committed to helping the world better understand China at this critical juncture in global politics. We are asking for your help to keep our websites up and running.
giving.chinadigitaltimes.net/page/serverc...
giving.chinadigitaltimes.net/page/serverc...
Keep CDT Online: Donate for Server Expenses
China Digital Times (CDT) is a non-profit organization that relies on institutional and individual donations to sustain our operations. In recent months, we have lost a significant portion of our inst...
giving.chinadigitaltimes.net
July 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Over the years, I’ve made a habit of reading China Digital Times before doing my own research on the Chinese internet. The CDT team is remarkably quick and skilled at capturing the most valuable bits of information drifting—then quickly vanishing—in the vast, chaotic sea of China’s online space.
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If you read this and you care or are curious even the least tiniest bit about China, click through this post and take three minutes to go set up a small recurring monthly donation to CDT. They're a public treasure future generations deserve to have around.
In recent months, we have lost a significant portion of our funding. Yet we remain committed to helping the world better understand China at this critical juncture in global politics. We are asking for your help to keep our websites up and running.
giving.chinadigitaltimes.net/page/serverc...
giving.chinadigitaltimes.net/page/serverc...
Keep CDT Online: Donate for Server Expenses
China Digital Times (CDT) is a non-profit organization that relies on institutional and individual donations to sustain our operations. In recent months, we have lost a significant portion of our inst...
giving.chinadigitaltimes.net
July 2, 2025 at 11:07 PM
If you read this and you care or are curious even the least tiniest bit about China, click through this post and take three minutes to go set up a small recurring monthly donation to CDT. They're a public treasure future generations deserve to have around.
Reposted by Aaron Wytze Wilson 🇨🇦
In recent months, we have lost a significant portion of our funding. Yet we remain committed to helping the world better understand China at this critical juncture in global politics. We are asking for your help to keep our websites up and running.
giving.chinadigitaltimes.net/page/serverc...
giving.chinadigitaltimes.net/page/serverc...
Keep CDT Online: Donate for Server Expenses
China Digital Times (CDT) is a non-profit organization that relies on institutional and individual donations to sustain our operations. In recent months, we have lost a significant portion of our inst...
giving.chinadigitaltimes.net
July 1, 2025 at 8:09 PM
In recent months, we have lost a significant portion of our funding. Yet we remain committed to helping the world better understand China at this critical juncture in global politics. We are asking for your help to keep our websites up and running.
giving.chinadigitaltimes.net/page/serverc...
giving.chinadigitaltimes.net/page/serverc...
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CDT is hands-down one of the most important public resources available for trying to understand China
In recent months, we have lost a significant portion of our funding. Yet we remain committed to helping the world better understand China at this critical juncture in global politics. We are asking for your help to keep our websites up and running.
giving.chinadigitaltimes.net/page/serverc...
giving.chinadigitaltimes.net/page/serverc...
Keep CDT Online: Donate for Server Expenses
China Digital Times (CDT) is a non-profit organization that relies on institutional and individual donations to sustain our operations. In recent months, we have lost a significant portion of our inst...
giving.chinadigitaltimes.net
July 2, 2025 at 5:50 PM
CDT is hands-down one of the most important public resources available for trying to understand China
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how does it feel to know you'll never create anything as beautiful as the title theme to the RoboCop Game Boy game from 1990 youtu.be/rhZBDNQ3gas?...
Robocop Title Theme (Gameboy version)
YouTube video by BlueHairKei
youtu.be
March 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
how does it feel to know you'll never create anything as beautiful as the title theme to the RoboCop Game Boy game from 1990 youtu.be/rhZBDNQ3gas?...
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We are glad to see that some curious minds like us want to find out more about Chinese APTs associated companies in reality. They actually paid a visit to them.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Chasing Chengdu404, Sichuan Silence....and NoSugar Technology !?
On the ground research on US sanctioned cyber security companies in China.
substack.com
February 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
We are glad to see that some curious minds like us want to find out more about Chinese APTs associated companies in reality. They actually paid a visit to them.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Dianji Theater (電姬戲院) in Madou, Tainan, is one of the few remaining Japanese colonial era cinemas still standing in Taiwan. It was established around 1938 and likely remained in use until the 1980s. After a long period of abandonment it was almost knocked down in 2020...
January 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Dianji Theater (電姬戲院) in Madou, Tainan, is one of the few remaining Japanese colonial era cinemas still standing in Taiwan. It was established around 1938 and likely remained in use until the 1980s. After a long period of abandonment it was almost knocked down in 2020...
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New video out now, exploring the many cultures and culinary customs of the world of Middle-Earth
youtu.be/2qZjAnUqZBM
youtu.be/2qZjAnUqZBM
The Food of the Lord of the Rings (and its significance)
YouTube video by kaptainkristian
youtu.be
January 20, 2025 at 4:59 PM
New video out now, exploring the many cultures and culinary customs of the world of Middle-Earth
youtu.be/2qZjAnUqZBM
youtu.be/2qZjAnUqZBM
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Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard.
➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025
➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025
January 1, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard.
➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025
➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025
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1/ With more users joining Bluesky, we know how important it is to identify which accounts are real. Users deserve confidence that the accounts they interact with are authentic.
Sharing some details about our impersonation policy 🧵
Sharing some details about our impersonation policy 🧵
November 29, 2024 at 8:46 PM
1/ With more users joining Bluesky, we know how important it is to identify which accounts are real. Users deserve confidence that the accounts they interact with are authentic.
Sharing some details about our impersonation policy 🧵
Sharing some details about our impersonation policy 🧵
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Traffic from Bluesky's @bsky.app to @theguardian.com is already 2x that of Threads
In its first week on the platform & with 300k followers, Bluesky traffic from @theguardian.com posts is already higher than it was from TwX in any week in 2024, where the account had 10.8m followers, but🧵
In its first week on the platform & with 300k followers, Bluesky traffic from @theguardian.com posts is already higher than it was from TwX in any week in 2024, where the account had 10.8m followers, but🧵
November 27, 2024 at 6:30 AM
Traffic from Bluesky's @bsky.app to @theguardian.com is already 2x that of Threads
In its first week on the platform & with 300k followers, Bluesky traffic from @theguardian.com posts is already higher than it was from TwX in any week in 2024, where the account had 10.8m followers, but🧵
In its first week on the platform & with 300k followers, Bluesky traffic from @theguardian.com posts is already higher than it was from TwX in any week in 2024, where the account had 10.8m followers, but🧵
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a small handful of people here have spent hours of their lives blocking hundreds of thousands of users in the hope of being recognized as bluesky’s biggest hater and i think that’s beautiful
November 26, 2024 at 1:11 PM
a small handful of people here have spent hours of their lives blocking hundreds of thousands of users in the hope of being recognized as bluesky’s biggest hater and i think that’s beautiful