Thanks. According to the Time Card, Softlemonades' activity is most frequent between 10:00 UTC to 22:00 UTC. In East Asian timezones such as UTC +8, this translates to "evening until the dead of the night". Still, we cannot rule out the possibility of state-sponsored actions either because there's also the likelihood that CCP used patsies in LATAM (especially Cuba) and Spain through Upwork or so on to mess with Wikipedia. Cuba in particular has been known to have close cooperation with the CCP. If I recall correctly, there were brief admissions by Softlemonades that they use VPNs and are granted IP block exemption.ericbarbour wrote: ↑Sun Oct 06, 2024 6:25 pmNo, there's only the charts on the user edit count page. Look at the "Time Card". And remember it's in UTC. If you don't know where the user was operating from, it's not much help.
Next, you'd want to look at the following report by the French government about CCP influence operations:
https://www.irsem.fr/report.html
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AhHevT ... COima/view
The “Three Warfares” strategy is one of the main doctrines of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) but, like the United Front, it remains relatively unknown, or at least insuffi-ciently taken into consideration, despite the publication of several books and articles on the subject.1 These “Three Warfares” – public opinion warfare, psychological warfare, and legal warfare – represent most of the Chinese political warfare, understood as all the forms of non-military confrontation that can be used to achieve a strategic objective.2 This three-front strategy of political warfare was officially adopted in 2003 by the Central Committee of the CCP and the Central Military Commission (CMC) with the revised “PLA Political Work Regulations.” It noted that wartime political work ought to include the imple- mentation of public opinion warfare, psychological warfare, and legal warfare.3
The 2010 revision added that all members of the military had to be trained in the “Three Warfares” (Art. 14 §17); that military propaganda had to include public opinion warfare (Art. 14 §10); that liaison work had to include psychological warfare (Art. 14 §14); and that political, legal (Art. 14 §7) as well as judicial work (Art. 14 §9) had to include legal warfare.4
The goal of public opinion warfare is to win over target audiences – those of enemy countries but also the international community – on the position defended by the govern-ment. The issue is not so much to know which armed forces will win, but which narra-tive, which version of the facts will prevail in a public opinion. Concretely, public opinion warfare, as conceptualized by the Chinese, consists in carrying out the “cognitive ori-entation” (引导认知) of the masses, to “excite their emotions” (激发情感) and to “constrain their behavior” (约束行为).20 This is an activity that can be carried at low intensity as it is a continuous, permanent, and long-term endeavor: its goal is to surrepti-tiously shape the psyche.
Besides, the Party uses intermediaries to carry out the “Three Warfares.”