Hacked emails reveal China’s elaborate and absurd internet propaganda machine - Quartz

I found this article on Quartz --

Hacked emails reveal China’s elaborate and absurd internet propaganda machine - Quartz

It describes the process in China as "absurd" and derides it as unsophisticated.  However I'm sure it works!  It has some effect on public opinion, for sure.  I would imagine that it will evolve into a more elegant and sophisticated system or process as citizens also get more hardened to reading obvious propaganda.

I'm convinced that the US right-wing effort is using immense amounts of money to do something very similar in trying to mold public opinion.  Yes, they fund and support the right-wing news stations, talk shows, newspapers and magazines.  However they also produce immense amounts of false or misleading twitter, facebook or email postings that get broad circulation.  The amount of that stuff dramatically increases around election time.  Much of it appears to be "humor" of a sort that makes liberal positions look stupid by not presenting the whole story.  I'm sure it has an effect on the less educated in the US...which is exactly what they want!