China's 80th anniversary WWII celebrations weren't just about military might—they were about rewriting history to erase America's wartime role. The post Historical Revisions on Parade appeared first on China Media Project.| China Media Project
Updated roster shows modest growth to 1,456 sources, with expansion focused on provincial and government platforms. The post China Issues Approved News Source List appeared first on China Media Project.| China Media Project
The safety test content for an AI-powered children's toy shows political safety figures heavily in even the most everyday applications of Chinese AI.| China Media Project
China's AI models are now a crucial part of the Party's censorship system for sudden-breaking stories and emergencies. The post Chatbots Silent on Sichuan Protests appeared first on China Media Project.| China Media Project
In the wake of a deadly boat accident, state media have moved to control the narrative, following a playbook created in 2008. But despite tight message discipline across official outlets, one Shanghai news source broke ranks with a story that raised uncomfortable questions about negligence and ignored safety warnings.| China Media Project
Chinese developers are using mock civil service exams and Communist Party ideology to train artificial intelligence – and that could shape how these models talk to the world.| China Media Project
The killing last week of a Japanese schoolboy in south China is the latest in a pattern of anti-Japanese hate — but the hard lessons of the tragedy are lost on the country’s media.| China Media Project
Outside China, the idea of “media convergence,” the joining together of communication technologies on handheld devices, is now so much a way of life that few even talk about it. But for China’s leadership it means something more — with far-reaching consequences for the exercise of power.| China Media Project
As the Wall Street Journal fires the head of Hong Kong’s biggest press union, sources tell us this is only the tip of the iceberg — across the board, international media are pressuring their Hong Kong employees to keep away from the group, or risk losing their jobs.| China Media Project
China’s leadership is actively pushing culture throughout the country’s vast rural hinterland, including through hundreds of thousands of "rural bookrooms." But the overriding goal is to push the Party’s continued dominance at China’s grassroots — to the detriment of real cultural development.| China Media Project
During political meetings in Beijing earlier this month, China made a show of its openness to foreign journalists. A closer look at its efforts to cultivate invited guests, particularly from the Global South, suggests what the government really wants is to have less experienced China reporters who arrive as tabula rasa — ready to be imprinted with the government’s message.| China Media Project
Internet control authorities in China routinely portray "online rumors" as a threat to public well-being. But the real concern, which has nothing to do with factualness or accuracy, is that they might be harmful to the Party's well-being — a fact that inflates the value of rumors, including truly false information.| China Media Project