Posted on 12/31/2021 10:46:54 PM PST by ProfessorGoldiloxx
"The Small Business Administration’s watchdog has been asked to investigate after a Virginia radio company that was paid millions of dollars to broadcast Chinese Communist Party propaganda received more than $100,000 through the Paycheck Protection Program.
Potomac Radio Group, which registered this month under the Foreign Agents Registration Act for its work for Chinese state-run China Global Television Network, received a loan for $106,228 through the SBA in April 2020, with the loan forgiven by the U.S. government eight months later. A source familiar with the matter told the Washington Examiner that SBA has had fraud experts undertake a post-forgiveness review of the loan and has also referred the controversy to the SBA inspector general to investigate. ..."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Communist China is free to come here and do this, but we have no ability to do this there. Everyone takes advantage of our system to hurt us.
Not much worse than some of the other media outlets...
How about the WaPostSlimes or CBS or the government schools or Etc,, Etc...
China harvests masses of data on Western targets, documents show
WaPo ^ | 31 December 2021 | Cate Cadell
FR Posted on 1/1/2022, 12:35:49 AM by blueplum
China is turning a major part of its internal Internet data surveillance network outward, mining Western social media, including Facebook and Twitter, to equip its government agencies, military and police with information on foreign targets, according to a Washington Post review of hundreds of Chinese bidding documents, contracts and company filings....
...The software primarily targets China’s domestic Internet users and media, but a Washington Post review of bidding documents and contracts for over 300 Chinese government projects since the beginning of 2020 include orders for software designed to collect data on foreign targets from sources such as Twitter, Facebook and other Western social media....
....The purchases range in size from small, automated programs to projects costing hundreds of thousands of dollars that are staffed 24 hours a day by teams including English speakers and foreign policy specialists.
The documents describe highly customizable programs that can collect real-time social media data from individual social media users. Some describe tracking broad trends on issues including U.S. elections.
The Post was not able to review data collected by the systems but spoke to four people based in Beijing who are directly involved in government public opinion analysis and described separate software systems that automatically collect and store Facebook and Twitter data in real time on domestic Chinese servers for analysis....
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XI and then VP JOE....(BFF, as long as the checks to the Biden Crime Family clear)
90 % of the news media is on the same train what isn’t Marxism is junk news.
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