Beijing [China], November 11 (ANI): In a bid to influence operations on social media, China is contracting out social media work rather than paying individuals to post and promote the government, local culture, economic growth of the country. Jordan Schneider in ChinaTalk said that almost two decades after China began marshalling its "fifty-cent army" to manipulate public conversation on the internet, the players involved in China's online "opinion guidance" have changed, heralding a new era of Chinese influence operations on social media. As China's internet environment has rapidly evolved one see a change in the ways that local and central…