Chinese IO Commercial Firm Attribution
summary
High-production pro-CCP videos point to a commercial IO firm hosted at onesite.cn, discovered by matching a high-reach Facebook video to domain registration and social-listening results from Meltwater. Leaked screen recordings from CCP Unmasked show a bespoke social-media management suite with persona tables, emails, phone numbers, IPs, timestamps and mass-posting controls. Personas run fake companies (PPE shop) that intermix product posts with pro-China/anti-US narratives. Open contract records show ~USD 175k paid for Twitter boosting, enabling firm-level attribution and domain pivots via RiskIQ.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:25Disinformation Investigations
- 2:05Narratives
- 3:26Tools
- 5:00Suspicious post
- 6:38Commercial Firm
- 7:44CCP Unmasked
- 8:18Social Media Management Tool
- 9:25Chinese Linguist
- 10:04Persona
- 11:30Personas
- 12:26Pivot Point
- 13:11Twitter Personas
- 13:36Twitter Persona 2
- 16:00Chinese Emoji
- 16:51Chinese Government Contracts
- 17:57Summary
- 19:08Other Reporting
- 20:43Questions Comments
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