Chinese propaganda has been happening for much longer. However, whenever it's brought up on sites like HN, it's down voted or 'racism' is in the reply. Most likely people with pro-China sentiment or actually people hired by the Chinese government. Hell, we had operatives secretly working with our own politicians in the US and it's been mostly memory holed.<p>Why should we care more about one evil regime's propaganda than another when it's pretty obvious the only reason we are seeing articles like this is because the tech community hates Elon Musk and Trump.