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us, now, tiktok absolutely denies that, chinese estate spokespeople have been saying they deny that as well. but it has raised broader questions about what china hopes to achieve with its media strategy around the world. how is it trying to create narratives that suit its goals? how is it, on occasions, trying to put this information into the information ecosystem? let s information ecosystem ? let s start information ecosystem? let s start by understanding these broad ambitions of president xi jinping and everyone else within the chinese state. i am joined by howard zhang, editor of bbc news chinese, but first, nguyen, how would you outline china s media strategy and its ambitions? ambitions? yes, thanks for havin: ambitions? yes, thanks for having me ambitions? yes, thanks for having me on. ambitions? yes, thanks for having me on. there - ambitions? yes, thanks for having me on. there has i ambitions? yes, thanks for. having me on. there has been ambitions? yes, ....
countdown to britain s first ever space launch. we are going to be live in cornwall, where the mission is taking off. let s start in brazil. security forces there have detained over 1,000 people after supporters of the former president jair bolsonaro stormed government buildings. this was the scene in brasilia the capital on sunday. thousands of demonstrators were involved. in the last few hours, brazilian authorities have issued a statement branding the riots terrorist acts of vandalism by criminals and coup plotters . and we ve also heard from brazil s president lula. translation: all those people who did this will be found and punished. they will realise that democracy guarantees the right to freedom and free speech, but it also demands that people respect the institutions created to strengthen democracy. let s take a step back and look at how we got here. in october last year, we saw a bitter electoral campaign between the incumbent jair bolsonaro and lula. a ....
Employees not only to speak to a chinese audience using the controlled media environment within china, increasingly to reach out to an english speaking audience and to a foreign audience more widely, including on foreign social media platforms like twitter that are in fact censored or banned in china. and what the propaganda push has now turned towards is this idea of providing different narratives, including, some might argue, narratives, including, some mightargue, misinformation narratives, including, some might argue, misinformation or misleading narratives about china s role in the world. this comes, of course, at a time when china s global investments and global partnerships have become active across the world and are increasing. china is seeking a way of countering narratives of fear of chinese companies elsewhere in the world. ., companies elsewhere in the world, ., ., companies elsewhere in the world. ., ., world. so how would you categorise world. so how would you categoris ....
Of extremist movements ready to destroy everything. so how has this all unfolded on social media? here s our disinformation and social media correspondent marianna spring. the spotlight today is also i on twitter, because twitter which was bought by elon musk a couple of months ago - sacked a lot of the team that worked in brazil, i some of whom s job it was to monitor these kind - of misinformation narratives online. and it s interesting because, today, we ve really seen how those - narratives have actually. some of the protesters have actually been using codewords, for example, i to hint at what was going to happen yesterday and to join everyone together, to get them outside congress. . and they use terms that, | if you were, for example, and they use terms that, - if you were someone who works for twitter who is brazilian, who s from the area, - you might be able to pick up on it. but if that team doesn t exist - any more, what does that mean? i was mentioning jair bolsonaro h ....
reporter: the main event that has heightened the concerns for the americans in the past couple days is the fact the russians put out this information suggesting they were de-escalating and u.s. intelligence coming to the conclusion that was basically a head fake. the biden administration is trying to be very narrow in their messaging in response to russia s moves right now because they re trying to avoid falling into one of several different misinformation narratives that vladimir putin has in place right now. so if russia does something that looks dees kala torry, responding positively to a diplomatic engagement, the u.s. dismisses it out of hand. the russians will use that to say it s the jingoistic americans. but they don t want to look like fools by letting the pressure off putin in response to de-escalation moves which turn ....