China issued its draft guideline for punishing cyber violence and online crimes recently after a high-profile “bullying” case emerged on the Chinese internet. However, Chinese journalist-in-exile Zhao Lanjian commented that there is effectively “no online bullying” in China. Instead, Zhao says, the “crimes” are concerted acts carried out by the communist regime and its peripheral companies…
China Seeks to Punish Online Bullying–But Journalist-In-Exile Says Beijing is Directing It All
June 20, 2023
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US Being ‘Vastly’ Outspent by CCP in Global Information War: Media Agency Head
May 3, 2023
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The U.S. agency responsible for broadcasting the “voice of freedom” to the world is being outspent by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), prompting a dire warning from the agency’s CEO. Amanda Bennett, head of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), urged senators to approve its $944 million funding request for 2024, saying: “If we miss…
Beijing Spreads Social Media Disinformation About Australian Politics: Think Tank
February 10, 2023
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The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is using social media to spread disinformation about Australian politics in a bid to undermine trust in Australia’s democratic institutions, researchers said. Beijing has coordinated dozens of Twitter accounts in recent months to amplify allegations of sexual assault and misconduct in Parliament House using the propaganda network Spamouflage, according to…
Does New COVID Surge or COVID Propaganda Pose Greater Risk?
December 28, 2022
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For three years, the CCP’s pandemic propaganda shaped Western responses to COVID. Now after Beijing ends its zero-covid policies come reports of massive infections and deaths. What’s really happening inside China and will the Party’s deadly disinformation again push Western democracies into totalitarian measures? In this hard-hitting new episode of Over the Target, Brendon Fallon…
State Department Agency Failing to Fully Counter Foreign Disinformation Campaigns, Says Watchdog
September 20, 2022
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The U.S. Department of State’s Global Engagement Center (GEC), which is tasked with countering disinformation, has been unable to completely fulfill its aim of exposing foreign propaganda, according to the department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG). “Despite having a clear legal mandate to coordinate Department and interagency efforts to counter propaganda and disinformation by foreign…
CCP’s Disinformation Operation Interfered in Canada’s 2021 Federal Election: Report
Chinese state-run media and pro-Beijing actors have been publishing disinformation narratives on various platforms in what was likely a “coordinated influence operation” targeting Chinese-Canadian voters in the 2021 Canadian federal election, says an organization specializing in exposing disinformation. DisinfoWatch, a Canadian platform that monitors and exposes foreign disinformation activities in the country, reported in September…
CCP Disinformation Operation Interfered in Canada’s 2021 Federal Election: Report
Chinese state-run media and pro-Beijing actors published disinformation narratives on various platforms in what was likely a “coordinated influence operation” targeting Chinese-Canadian voters in the 2021 Canadian federal election, says an organization specializing in exposing disinformation. DisinfoWatch, which monitors and exposes foreign disinformation activities in Canada, reported in September that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)…
How Western Social Media Can Do More Than Just Pay Lip Service to Uphold Freedom of Speech
Commentary Twitter’s recent banning of accounts critical of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is deplorable. But it also forces us to really start considering how Western social media and big tech companies can defend freedom of speech, instead of being used as tools against us by authoritarian states such as the Chinese regime. The issue of tech-based…
The Influential Westerners Helping the Chinese Regime
Commentary COVID-19 may very well be China’s Chernobyl, but try telling that to the masters of spin in Beijing. According to a recent editorial in the Global Times, a mouthpiece for the Chinese regime: “More than half a million Chinese netizens have signed a joint letter to the WHO.” They demand that “the organization conduct an…
China’s Misleading Propaganda: Using Prison Riot Scene to Dramatize Hate Attacks Of Chinese Americans
A video claiming to show a hate attack on Chinese Americans in California is widely circulated in China and other Asian countries. However, it was verified that the video was actually a gang riot that occurred in an Ecuadorian prison in February this year. Beginning on April 26, the video started circulating on multiple social…
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