Wumao (CHICOM paid shill) operating procedures

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Seems that in a lot of cases, the CHICOMs recruit large numbers of non-political, internet-savvy prisoners to operate as wumao shills in exchange for credits which may lead to better prison conditions or even a shorter sentence. We have seen these types before here on GLP and I believe they tend to cycle through the site every few weeks.

Here's a few snippets:

CAC(Cyberspace Administration of China) Internal Documentation for Internet Commentators


Online commentators should be skillful in concealing their real identities. They must have multiple different usernames, with which they need to post articles in various styles of writing. If required, members of different working teams can pretend to be netizens who are debating in forums. Then, the third party can put forward strong evidence to guide the public opinion in its favor.

Basic working procedures: the routine work for each group only focuses on specific websites. Different groups are held accountable for relevant forums of different major websites. The daily work serves to defend the correct guidance of public opinion according to the overall guidelines. In the case of a sudden public opinion outbreak, the routine work should be suspended. Instead, commentators should follow the instructions of special working teams in superior departments. The staff and resources should be devoted to the guidance of public opinion on the emergency.

On some popular forums where the credibility of netizens is usually high, commentators should go make a mess. Commentators can intervene by posting ambiguous articles, distort viewpoints irrationally in their comments, incite misunderstandings, and debates to distract the netizens’ attention from some issues.

It is difficult to gain control of the public opinion on websites overseas. When commentators fail to dominate the public opinion on foreign forums, they can use short, irrational, and meaningless posts to spam the forum. When the screen is flooded with a pointless mess, netizens are likely to lose interest. In this way, commentators can prevent reactionary ideologies from public dissemination.