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12.20.20
Message Control
Li Wenliang’s death had only been announced a few hours earlier, but Warming High-Tech was already on the case. The company had been monitoring online mentions of the COVID-whistleblower’s name in the several days since police had detained and...
12.20.20
Methodology
ChinaFile’s research for “Message Control: How a New For-Profit Industry Helps China’s Leaders ‘Manage Public Opinion’” relied primarily on a dataset comprising some 3,100 procurement notices that central and local government offices posted for...
12.20.20
Key Takeaways
“Message Control: How a New For-Profit Industry Helps China’s Leaders ‘Manage Public Opinion’,” a new report from ChinaFile, relies on an analysis of some 3,100 publicly available Chinese government procurement notices related to purchases of...
12.20.20
Beijing High People’s Court Public Opinion Monitoring Data Processing Program
Chinese Government Procurement Network
In 2019, the Beijing High People’s Court issued a procurement notice for public opinion monitoring services and data processing. Included with the notice was this supplemental material, which contains in-depth descriptions of the types of...