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China is using the world's largest known online disinformation operation to harass Americans, a CNN review finds (www.cnn.com)

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The Chinese government has built up the world’s largest known online disinformation operation and is using it to harass US residents, politicians, and businesses—at times threatening its targets with violence, a CNN review of court documents and public disclosures by social media companies has found.

The onslaught of attacks – often of a vile and deeply personal nature – is part of a well-organized, increasingly brazen Chinese government intimidation campaign targeting people in the United States, documents show.

The US State Department says the tactics are part of a broader multi-billion-dollar effort to shape the world’s information environment and silence critics of Beijing that has expanded under President Xi Jinping. On Wednesday, President Biden is due to meet Xi at a summit in San Francisco.

Victims face a barrage of tens of thousands of social media posts that call them traitors, dogs, and racist and homophobic slurs. They say it’s all part of an effort to drive them into a state of constant fear and paranoia.

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[-] shirro@aussie.zone 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Obviously a lot of state actors are involved in forms of information warfare including China and they certainly have the resources to be very effective in that area.

You follow the money and a lot of the time it is going to end up the same place as a disproportionate amount of the world's capital which is in the USA and the west in general. The amount of damage the fossil fuel industry has done to the world is immeasurable and makes China insignificant by comparison. They funded anyone who would take their side and supported many forms of extremism in the process, all to prolong the value of their investments at the cost of leaving a horrendous legacy for future generations.

I am concerned about China's massive military expansion and their impact on regional stability, but dealing with that is on a whole different level of concern to some of the other influences on our media and politics.

Obligatory fuck the CCP, but also they aren't going anywhere unless the Chinese population fights for democracy and we aren't setting a great example for them while we refuse to participate in and improve the democracy we have.

[-] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Can't we just let Japan and Britain take their colonies back? Ancestry or whatever the fuck china it's claiming with parts of the ocean and Taiwan, should be used against them equally.

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[-] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Pub G

[-] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

Mmm i feel so harassed

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