【Text/Observer Network Ruan Jiaqi】
A group of popular science popularizers gathered together to publish strange remarks that "Chinese are insatiable for seafood", and unexpectedly triggered a "big earthquake" in the science circle.
On the evening of the 18th, the popular science blogger @ Sai Lei Said Gold said that he had also received a cooperation intention from a "public welfare organization" and invited him to make a short popular science video on the theme of "China's marine protection". However, after further inquiry, he found that this organization is actually an overseas NGO organization, and the founders and consultants are ostensibly experts in studying China, but in fact, they have been doing the work of smearing and slandering China's environmental undertakings for many years, and even appeared in the figure of Patten, who was denounced as a "sinner of the ages" and the last Governor of Hong Kong.
Therefore, he said that such overseas NGO organizations spend huge sums of money to find a large number of domestic media to publicize the so-called "environmental protection", in the name of popular science marine fisheries, in fact, they maliciously spread some terrorist information that "they will not be able to eat fish in the future", so that protein intake is much lower than that of developed countries Chinese do not eat seafood.
In the video, he also directly hung up the blogger @eyeopener suspected of collecting money to do popular science videos, and pointed out two editors of another science popularization v@ paperclip paper clip, who worked in US military agencies and published a large number of anti-China remarks in overseas social media.
The two parties named in the early morning of the 19th responded successively. @eyeopener first admitted that the relevant videos he released were indeed produced in cooperation with the NGO organization that broke out at @Sai Lei, but he did not know the motivation behind the organization in advance, and he deleted the cooperation video and terminated the follow-up cooperation.
Excerpt from the apology statement
@Paperclip also issued an apology statement afterwards, saying that the two employees involved have left their jobs, and in the future, senior experts from the mainstream media will be invited to serve as content editor-in-chief, responsible for checking the content orientation, and temporarily suspending the change before the media professional training for all employees.
At noon today (19th), Jun Zhengping Studio and the People's Liberation Army News and Communication Center integrated media @ Jun Zhengping issued a short commentary, "Beware of conspiracies and malice under the banner of environmental protection and science popularization."
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If you want to eat this melon clearly, you must first talk about a bunch of big v bloggers suddenly got together a while ago to appeal to Chinese not to eat seafood, so as not to exhaust the "strange thing" of the world's fish resources.
Gu Yue, a former American tourist v@, said that Chinese was "insatiable" for seafood;
Later, @Chen Yijia of Three Orange Media called Chinese "Eat less fish together."
However, without exception, the two people have not posted photos of eating seafood in private, and they have not commented on the eating of seafood in other countries such as the United States, and even exaggerated.
Just a few days ago, Chen Yijia had just eaten a bowl of crab yellow noodles, but this blog post could not be searched
The "double standard" of the two was fiercely criticized by many netizens, "Co-authoring is that Americans can eat, Chinese can not eat." ”
There are also some netizens who question the bloggers involved in receiving funding to make such a so-called popular science video, June 14 @ Three Orange Planet issued a statement denying this, saying that the relevant video is independently produced by Three Orange Media, there is no commercial cooperation with other parties, no other fees are charged, and the content of the network is false news.
@Chen Yijia also forwarded the statement, saying that the relevant video was produced independently, had nothing to do with any institutions and online speech, was purely a personal interest study, and all data and factual sources were verified. And the video is aimed at the global fishing industry and never comments on Chinese consumers.
But coincidentally, at the same time, @eyeopener, a popular science blogger who had just become popular for "reasoning about the specific location with a graph", also posted two popular science videos with similar views on WeChat, worrying about "Can we still eat fish in the future?" ”。
Suddenly so many popular science bloggers gathered together to shout Chinese don't eat seafood, what the hell is going on? Popular science blogger @Serley Talk Gold (another account named @Serre 3 Minutes) immediately threw out a screenshot of an email, stirring up thousands of waves.
On the 13th, @Sere three minutes broke the news that in recent days, these popular science bloggers who shouted "Chinese don't eat seafood" are likely to have received money from overseas NGO organizations, doing bad things in the name of environmental protection, fooling Chinese not to eat seafood. He has also received relevant cooperation invitations, but he thinks that some money should not be earned, so he does not take care of it.
According to the screenshot of the email he released, the theme of the video requesting cooperation is related to "China's marine protection", and the body of the email also lists very detailed requirements for the expected video content, including topics such as "the fishery resource crisis and overfishing facing China and the world".
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After being questioned by some netizens about the p-chart, @Sai Lei Jin released a video on the evening of the 18th, erasing the mosaic of the screenshot of this email, detailing the causes and consequences of the matter, as well as the whole process of his peeling the NGO organization.
@Sai Lei said that the email he received at that time was from a non-profit organization of the "China Dialogue Beijing Project Group", and the cooperation activity was jointly initiated by China Dialogue, the World Wide Fund for Nature and the Green Research Institute.
At first, he also thought that this was a public welfare science popularization activity, but a closer look found that it was not so simple.
Although the organization's official website in China is "a piece of peace", after further inquiries, @Sai Lei found that this "China Dialogue Organization" is actually an overseas NGO organization, using a British charity registration number. The founders and advisers of the organization are ostensibly experts in studying China, but in fact, they have been doing things for many years to smear and slander China's environmental cause.
The founder of Chinadialogue, Isabelle Hilton, worked for The Times and The Independent and wrote about China's environmental issues for 23 years as a columnist for The Guardian. Her social media posts also showed that she was a serious anti-China activist who advocated support for "Hong Kong independence" and "Xinjiang independence" and other vicious acts of splitting China.
Professor Shen Yi, director of the International Governance Research Base in Cyberspace at Fudan University and columnist of the Observer Network, also added that Hilton started as an editor of the "Open Democracy Network", and the "Open Democracy Network" funding sources include the Open Society Fund, the "CIA White Glove" National Endowment for Democracy and the Ford Foundation.
In the group's advisory panel, there is not only Mark Erwin, an honorary teacher of Chinese history at the Australian National University who has published many books to denigrate China's environmental cause, but even the figure of The last Governor of Hong Kong, Patten, who has been denounced as a "sinner of the ages".
"Can such a group of people live together and hope that China is good?" Apparently not. @Cerrey believes that "ChinaDialogue" spends a lot of money to find a lot of domestic media to promote the so-called "environmental protection", in the name of popular science marine fisheries, in fact, it is malicious to spread some terrorist information that "you can't eat fish in the future", so that the protein intake is much lower than that of Chinese in developed countries, do not eat seafood, "they think that we Chinese are not qualified to live a good life like them, and try to fool us lame." ”
In the video, @Sai Lei also directly hung up the blogger @eyeopener mentioned above, in order to attack some popular science bloggers for not having a bottom line to promote "just rice". On the 19th, the well-known popular science blogger @ flying saucer said that he had also posted a blog saying that he had received the kind of promotional email exposed by @ Serley Gold, and was glad that he had stuck to the bottom line even if he almost started with his colleagues.
At the same time, @UFO said that the so-called cooperation email sent by overseas non-profit organizations, the core of the content they proposed will eventually lead the world's environmental protection issues to blame China's environmental protection problems, and warn peers.
After being named, @eyeopener apologized in the early morning of the 19th, admitting that the relevant video he posted was indeed produced in cooperation with the "China Dialogue Organization" that broke out by @Sai Lei, but did not know the motive behind the organization in advance, and had deleted the cooperation video and terminated the follow-up cooperation.
This time, the big vs shouted "don't let Chinese eat seafood", which is easy to think of the well-known science popularization v@ paperclip last year's "Chinese meat, eggs and milk destroyed the Brazilian rainforest" argument.
Sure enough, @Serley Gold This time a new problem was discovered: Nie Tongyu, the former manuscript editor of @Paperclip, from his foreign social media introduction, he now works at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory. The U.S. Army Research Laboratory is a sibling unit with the Fort Detrick Laboratory, which has a dirty deal with Japanese Unit 731 in private;
Ji Wenyi, the current manuscript editor of @Paperclip, has repeatedly published a large number of anti-China remarks on foreign social media such as Twitter.
In this regard, @paper clip paperclip also issued an apology statement in the early morning of the 19th, responding that the two employees mentioned in the @Sai Lei talk gold video have left. Among them, Nie joined the paper clip in July 2018, when he was a student of a domestic university, he had served as a content intern and left his post in July 2019. Ji joined Paperclip in May 2020 as a content writer and left in May 2021. During their tenures, both of them made remarks on overseas personal social media that trampled on national feelings and broke through the moral bottom line, and ignoring their remarks was a serious dereliction of duty by the company.
@Paperclip paperclip released the decision that in the future, senior experts from mainstream media will be invited to serve as content editors-in-chief, responsible for checking content orientation. At the same time, all members of the team will seriously reflect, and the company will conduct media professional training for all employees of the paper clip to strengthen ideological education and management. Take the initiative to stop everything before the team is remodeled and trained.
At present, the b-station account of @Paperclip is marked with "the user has a large dispute, please be careful to identify its content".
On this matter, at noon today, Jun Zhengping Studio and the People's Liberation Army News and Communication Center rong media @ Jun Zhengping issued a short commentary, reminding netizens to be vigilant against conspiracy and malice under the banner of environmental protection and science popularization. "The Internet has never been quiet, and there are many, many similar conspiracies and malicious intentions." There can be no national security without cybersecurity'. Maybe the 'friend' you interact with is a spy of some foreign intelligence agencies, and you must be careful to guard against it. Every Chinese netizen and every Chinese Internet enterprise should keep their eyes open and shoulder their responsibilities to resolutely safeguard the country's network security. ”
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