The Chinese Communist Party is paying online influencers and production companies as much as $620,000 to create propaganda and counter global efforts to expose human rights abuses against the Uighur people in Xinjiang, government tender documents reveal.
An investigation by The Australian Financial Review has uncovered multiple tenders to outsource propaganda to influencers and production companies, including on Chinese video-sharing app Douyin as well as other media.
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