# Social credit scores are Western, not Chinese

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Podcast: [Jerm Warfare](https://stenobird.com/podcast/jerm-warfare-7121194)
Published: 2026-06-22T07:37:50+00:00
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## Resource

Cynthia Chung is an amazing researcher, writer, and filmmaker, and is currently writing a mammoth series on Substack, The True Origins of China's 'Social Credit System' , which will later become a documentary, in which she exposes social credit scores as a Western invention, not a Chinese one, as we are led to believe. This matters a lot because we constantly hear about China leading the way in technocracy and why it's a model for Western countries, but the reality is an inversion of what we think we are told.

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