1. It’s obvious
2. Do they even get any engagement? Americans can’t be that dumb
3. I might sometimes accidentally identify as American on the internet “we” and refer to their elections as “our elections” despite being Japanese. It makes people less toxic and suspicious or maybe I’ve just been consuming too much English media
It seems that American intelligence services got a budget increase to bash China. You here it every two days in almost every major newspaper or TV station.
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1. It’s obvious 2. Do they even get any engagement? Americans can’t be that dumb 3. I might sometimes accidentally identify as American on the internet “we” and refer to their elections as “our elections” despite being Japanese. It makes people less toxic and suspicious or maybe I’ve just been consuming too much English media
Money well spent.
Per the OP, the Chinese government wasn't doing it before and changed what they are doing. If it was 'obvious' to you before, you were wrong about it.
> 2. Do they even get any engagement? Americans can’t be that dumb
Is your argument that disinformation campaigns are necessarily ineffective? That's really hard to imagine.
End of day, US readers like this type of stories.