It's not just WeChat.
They own stakes in many american media companies and movie production houses. They use this influence to also change our Media and push pro-Chinese propaganda to the American public.
They own stakes in many american media companies and movie production houses. They use this influence to also change our Media and push pro-Chinese propaganda to the American public.
The whole point of the 1984 scenario was that people couldn't talk about the preceding period and no evidence supporting its existence could be found.
Let's suppose that there are five tiers on the spectrum of "good" to "1984": Acknowledge the history; Omit it; Contradict it, Erase it, Punish dissenters.
Prior to 2016 most US politicians never went past Omit.
Bush 2.0 did a good job of making the media toe the line by shutting out any dissenters. This was the beginning of the neo-con manipulation game.
Or are we using propaganda and opinions interchangeably here
It's not a matter of "separated from opinion", but rather the cutting of certain scenes or modification of certain lines of dialog. They also effectively engage in various forms of product placement on a more nationalistic level.
and anyway in recent years they tried to promote China in movies as cooperating nation helping world
Here's a whole article on it: https://www.cnet.com/features/marvel-is-censoring-films-for-...