‘Mind Dominance’: The Chinese Communist Party’s Disinformation War on US Social Media
“In the post-2019 period, inauthentic campaigns and online personalities have become staples of CCP propaganda. YouTube, Facebook, and other global social media platforms have removed tens of thousands of accounts suspected of inauthentic manipulation attributed to China in the past three years.”
TikTok Failed to Prevent 90 Percent of Election Misinformation: Report
TikTok also approved ads that dismissed the integrity of the election, suggested the results could be hacked or were otherwise already pre-decided, and discouraged voters from turning out.
“This is no longer a new problem,” <a href="https://www.globalwitness.org/en/press-releases/facebook-and-tiktok-fail-block-deceptive-ads-blatant-us-midterms-disinformation/" target="_blank" said Global Witness Senior Advisor Jon Lloyd in an associated statement. “For years we have seen key democratic processes undermined by disinformation, lies, and hate being spread on social media platforms".
China Exploits US Social Media to Push its Own Xinjiang Narratives
terilization, and cultural degradation of the predominantly Muslim Uyghurs and other minorities in Xinjiang.
Work as Usual, Then Tears as Hong Kong’s Citizen News Bids Farewell
“This is our first and last appearance in 2022,” anchor Chan Wai-yan said at the start of the local news round-up before launching into coverage of the new lawmakers’ oath-taking ceremonies at the Legislative Council.
Google Reveals Details of Three Instances It Removed Content at Request of Hong Kong Police
One requested the removal of a Google Drive account that the police said “was being used for blackmail,” the Google report said. “It contained mostly intimate images of women, as well as some images that appeared to be news photographs of political activities.”
‘Covert, Corrupt, and Coercive’: Report Details Beijing’s Bid to Establish New Global Media Order
Chinese state media set up English- and regional-language pages on Facebook in 2013. Eight years on, they have topped world’s media in term of following, with four major outlets—CGTN, China Daily, Xinhua, and People’s Daily—having between 86 million to 116 million followers each at the time of the French report’s publication, or about 2.5 to 3 times larger than that of CNN’s.
Detained Coronavirus Journalist Losing Weight on Hunger Strike: Lawyer
A citizen journalist detained in Shanghai after she reported on the emerging coronavirus epidemic in the central Chinese city of Wuhan has lost weight after refusing food in a police-run detention center, her lawyer said on Monday.
Shanghai Police Hold Lawyer-Turned-Blogger Who Reported From Wuhan
Qiao Long and Wong Lok-to | Radio Free Asia Police from Shanghai have detained a lawyer-turned-citizen journalist who reported on the emerging coronavirus epidemic in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. Zhang Zhan, who lives in Shanghai but who traveled to Wuhan in early February, was taken away from Wuhan’s Caiguang Hotel near Hankou railway […]
The US Launches ‘Global Mandarin’ Network to Counter Beijing’s Propaganda
Since 2009, the Chinese authorities have spent US$6.6 billion on foreign-language media, chiefly English. In 2016, China renamed the English-language arm of its main broadcaster, China Central Television (CCTV), to China Global Television Network
China’s Viral Eye-Rolling Reporter Incident Reveals a Darker Secret
Sunny Chao | Epoch Times Caught on state television, a Chinese reporter rolled her eyes during a press conference for the Chinese regime’s very predictable, mostly ceremonial rubber-stamp legislature sessions. She instantly became an internet sensation in China. The incident also inadvertently revealed how the regime handpicks so-called “foreign journalists” to attend its press events, who […]