On October 30, the U.S. network analysis firm Graphika released a report stating that the China-linked "Spamouflage" network used X accounts to impersonate U.S. voters, spreading politically divisive content ahead of the midterm elections and questioning the integrity of U.S. elections; the Chinese Embassy in the U.S. denied interfering in U.S. elections.
The Xiangyang Net video account posted a video thanking China for maintaining Soviet military cemeteries and praising the achievements of the Soviet army. In the comment section, many netizens left messages paying tribute to the American Flying Tigers, stating that the friendship between China and the US during the War of Resistance remains eternal.
A user on X revealed that after refusing to cooperate and criticizing a certain creator for spreading propaganda content, Kimi AI again sent a private message asking them to delete their comment; the user refused and expressed anger.
Netizens questioned why a post reproducing a Xinhua interview, with the watermark cropped out, was taken down on the grounds of "distorting and misinterpreting national policies and regulations." Xinhua subsequently edited the video caption to add Guancha.cn as the source, but still made no mention of VOGUE.
On October 14, "China San Nong Fabu" posted a video of Xi Jinping's speech at the 40th anniversary conference of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone in 2020, saying that "when it comes to whether life is good, the people have the most say." It received 100,000+ likes, and the comments were almost entirely praise in the vein of "the people's good chairman."
At Beijing time October 3, 2026, the account China Digital Times (@CDT) published its "404 Deleted Content Archive" roundup for August 2026. The report reviewed and archived representative topics and articles that were censored and deleted on the Chinese internet that month, covering cross-talk comedian Guo Degang, sexual assault at a dinner party, Huawei and "Bamboo Cicada," security checks around Tiananmen, the box-office dark-horse phenomenon of the film "Niu Lai," and the Jilong floods, along with related public opinion and reports.
A large number of netizens went to China Daily's Douyin account to leave comments mocking its out-of-context editing, and that evening China Daily took down the video.
Peking University News subsequently published a report on Steinmeier's visit, detailing his activities such as playing table tennis with students and faculty and receiving a signed racket, but made no mention of his speech quoting Cai Yuanpei's principle of 'freedom of thought and inclusiveness.'
On September 24, People's Daily released a video titled "Crossing the Trap," revisiting the question Xi Jinping raised in May, during Trump's visit to China, of whether China and the US can overcome the "Thucydides Trap," and said the new positioning of China-US relations as a "constructive, strategically stable relationship" is the answer to that question.
On September 18, the first two characters of the propaganda slogan "Serve the People Wholeheartedly" fell off at a cultural and creative street in Jiangxi, leaving the phrase "Serve the People Turtle-Bastard-Heartedly" instead. After relevant videos spread online and sparked ridicule from netizens, they were quickly removed from short-form video platforms.
On September 19, 2026, the media outlet The Irrawaddy published a report titled “Guangxi’s Deadly Floods and China’s Propaganda Crisis.” The article points out that the Guangxi region has recently suffered severe flooding, raises questions about the Chinese authorities’ propaganda strategies and information control during disaster response, and analyzes the contradictions between the official narrative and the actual situation in the disaster area, as well as the public opinion crisis they have triggered.
On September 19, a netizen uploaded a Douyin video in which a girl squats in a shabby room eating noodles cooked by her grandmother, with the noodle basin placed on the floor. Bullet comments flooded the screen with phrases like "It's just wrong," lamenting the contrast between poverty-alleviation propaganda and reality.
On September 16, CCTV News reported that a shopping mall in Hebi, Henan hung posters of figures like Yuan Longping, Tu Youyou, and Zhang Guimei, praising them as the top-tier stars of the Chinese nation. Data from September 17 showed the video received 170,000 likes, but the comment section had only 74 comments, sparking public skepticism over comment control.
On September 11, a blogger released a video exposing Douyin's traffic monetization and censorship mechanisms, claiming that attacking the US can earn 15 yuan per 10,000 views. Conversely, videos debunking false foreign information are restricted and offer no revenue. The blogger questioned why related content from a certain "Global Times" video was forcibly removed.
From September 4, official media such as Beijing Daily carried extensive expert interpretations, claiming that the Gyirong mudslide was a chain disaster with multiple links, including an ice collapse and debris flow, with extremely strong destructive power that cut off roads, communications and power entirely. The deposit averaged 4 meters thick and reached a maximum of 16 meters; life detectors could effectively probe less than two meters, leaving survivors with little hope of survival.