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https://www.youtube.com/user/CCTVNEWSbeijing/videos

There are armies of weird looking accounts posting and upvoting obsessively in odd, non-organic patterns. Someone is obviously running a massive sockpuppet army.

[xster]

Well it's the official state apparatus with 1.2 billion viewers with 10x the viewership of BBC.

There's tons of ways you can criticize it but sockpuppetry is probably not the best one to go for.

[est]

> Well it's the official state apparatus with 1.2 billion viewers with 10x the viewership of BBC.

No it's not. Youtube is blocked from the 1.2b viewers.

Also, not everyone in China watch CCTV. Young people don't even watch TV anymore.