INVESTIGATE CHINA'S SOCIAL MEDIA LIKE A PRO!
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china socmint full course
What This Course Is About
Skills You’ll Walk Away With
What This Course Is About
This is the go-to course for mastering Social Media Intelligence (SOCMINT) inside China.
You’ll learn how to investigate across multiple platforms, build avatars that survive long-term, and extract intelligence from closed digital communities.
You’ll learn how to:
- Create and maintain credible avatars and accounts across QQ, WeChat, Weibo, DouYin and more.
- Monitor and engage with groups, channels, digital communities, Moments inside China’s digital ecosystem.
- Extract intelligence from cybercrime chatter, disinformation campaigns, and closed-group discussions.
- Pivot across multiple platforms, connecting fragments of data into full networks.
- Apply SOCMINT tradecraft tailored to China’s unique censorship and surveillance environment.
WHY THIS COURSE MATTERS
Skills You’ll Walk Away With
What This Course Is About
QQ OSINT and WeChat OSINT short courses give you platform-specific skills.
The SOCMINT Full Course goes further:
- Covers all major Chinese platforms (QQ, WeChat, Weibo, Douyin, and invite-only groups).
- Teaches integrated workflows — how to pivot between platforms instead of being limited to one.
- Shows you how to connect actors, conversations, and networks across China’s digital space.
- Includes 30+ hands-on exercises with real-world examples and practical tradecraft.
This is the complete program for anyone who wants to go beyond one platform and gain comprehensive SOCMINT capability inside China.
Skills You’ll Walk Away With
Skills You’ll Walk Away With
Skills You’ll Walk Away With
- Confidence to operate across QQ, WeChat, Weibo, Douyin, and beyond.
- Ability to detect cross-platform signals missed by platform-specific training.
- Practical SOCMINT methods to bypass restrictions and sustain long-term access.
- Independence to conduct professional-grade investigations, producing intelligence that take the entire OSINT teams's skills to the highest grounds.
china socmint – Syllabus
MODULE 1 – Introduction to SOCMINT in China
MODULE 1 – Introduction to SOCMINT in China
MODULE 1 – Introduction to SOCMINT in China
- Landscape: WeChat, QQ, Weibo, Douyin and other socials Western platforms.
- Where sensitive chatter really lives and why SOCMINT beats generic OSINT here.
- Risks: real-name systems, lockouts, device fingerprints, OPSEC basics.
- Investigator mindset: patient, credible, low-noise, long-term.
MODULE 2 – Linguistic Signals
MODULE 1 – Introduction to SOCMINT in China
MODULE 1 – Introduction to SOCMINT in China
- Working with Chinese at investigator level: characters, pinyin, input methods.
- Slang, numeronyms & homophones (e.g., 88, 233, “河蟹”), censorship-dodging code.
- Dialect & subculture markers (gaming, hacker, scam, political) and what they signal.
- Emojis, memes, image text, and visual wordplay as meaning carriers.
- Toolchain & workflow: translation traps, cross-checks, dictionaries and how to work around them.
MODULE 3 – Avatars & Account Survival
MODULE 1 – Introduction to SOCMINT in China
MODULE 4 – Operating, Pivoting & Intelligence Production
- Building believable personas: metadata, posting cadence, social graph hygiene.
- Creating/maintaining accounts on QQ, WeChat, Weibo that pass verification and survive.
- Device/IP hygiene, and recovery after flags/bans.
- Exercises: Create long-term avatars, join low-risk and high risk spaces.
MODULE 4 – Operating, Pivoting & Intelligence Production
MODULE 4 – Operating, Pivoting & Intelligence Production
MODULE 4 – Operating, Pivoting & Intelligence Production
- Monitoring groups, channels, Moments, chats; spotting cybercrime, and fraud chatter.
- Cross-platform pivots: handle → QQ group → WeChat public acct → Weibo thread → Douyin clip.
- Capturing evidence (screens, links, hashes, metadata) and building chains of investigation.
- Final case study: run a multi-platform SOCMINT investigation and produce a pro-grade report.
GIFT
MODULE 4 – Operating, Pivoting & Intelligence Production
GIFT
As part of your enrollment, you can choose one bonus mini-publication from our advanced intelligence library:
- China OSINT Advanced (Cyber Intelligence) – insights into cyber-focused OSINT techniques.
- Dark Web Advanced (Source Development) – tradecraft for identifying and developing hidden sources.
Each gift publication is designed to complement your training, helping you merge new skills with advanced techniques and unlocking entirely new ways to discover and connect hidden data.
Materials
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- Duration: 50 days of full access to PDF content.
- Exercises: 30+ hands-on SOCMINT drills across QQ, WeChat, Weibo, Douyin, and invite-only groups.
- Outcome: You’ll be able to build avatars, access closed communities, and extract intelligence across multiple Chinese platforms — operating with confidence where most analysts fail.
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Our team supports you throughout your 50-day SOCMINT training journey.
We answer all questions via email and provide guidance to help refine your investigations, ensuring you make the most of every exercise and workflow.
China OSINT in Action: Quick Glimpse
In this video, we demonstrate how to convert any image hosted on Weibo servers into a user ID (UID) — effectively identifying the person who posted it. In our SOCMINT section, we also deep dive into full QQ, WeChat OSINT — covering everything from bypassing restrictions and creating accounts to gaining access and conducting effective investigations.
China’s internet isn’t just censored — it’s layered with restrictions. From apps limiting downloads and installs, to GEO-based blocks that defeat most VPNs, and captchas that Westerns can't solve.
One unique restriction? Platforms like CSDN that block full content unless you’re logged in (using a +86).
In this video, we show you exactly how to bypass that — and access the full content without needing an account. Step by step.
In this brief 12 minute sneak peek with you so you can get a good idea of how detailed and comprehensive our new updated October 2024 video lessons are, these are called 'investigative sessions' where you get an inside view into the step by step, how we explore, how we search, how we find information and pivot from it in China's complex ecosystem. How do we search or go from incorrect searching to the right one in Chinese as a Western investigator, to not waste time, be accurate ...
In this video, we demonstrate—live—how to bypass platforms like QCC.com and Tianyancha, China’s leading corporate intelligence sites. These sites often block access using DPI (Deep Packet Inspection) or geo-restrictions, making simple tools like VPNs useless. We show you exactly how to get around those blocks effectively.
In the course, we teach you at least four unique access methods (and more in development)— including techniques rarely used by OSINT professionals. Why? Because these methods are adapted directly from advanced penetration testing practices, giving you solutions that go far beyond traditional open-source workflows.
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