Posted on 12/31/2021 9:35:49 PM PST 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....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
So they use bots to google target businesses?
China has a smart leader who loves his country.
We don’t have a leader and, in his few lucid moments, he intentionally tries to destroy the country.
And neither party gives a crap and tries to impeach him.
Let’s go Brandon.
The same can also be said of Russia.
But as you wrote, not of America.
Well, only if you think stomping on the face of your people with a boot--forever--is "loving" them. With this logic, Pinhead from Hellraiser loves everybody a lot in his torture dimension.
They can buy the data through front companies.
It’s not like Goog, FB and others are finished monetizing their customer base.
"but spoke to four people based in Beijing who are"
now in prison. No need to mention the location of these informants, but the press cannot be help responsible for the consequences of reporting such regardless...
Really? How can you confuse love of power with love of country, and is was love for God and country that separates this lustful tyrant from so many veterans who actually fought the likes of this Chinese lost villain.
I think the main idea is that Xi wants China to prosper. The foggy brained turd Biden wants us poor. The difference is clear.
What do you think of a “leader” who keeps the borders open for all kinds of rif-raf to enter, who stole an election for “love” of country, who left Americans stranded in Afghanistan, who is steering this country toward a recession, and who hangs on to power in between the few lucid moments that he has. What do you think our leader has — love of power or love of country? But we’re no commies, huh? No, we call them RATs in this country.
Get a reality check.
Fang Fang chuckles and winks.
WaPo Article is behind pay firewall
FWIW, I think this has bugger all to do with the Uyghurs.
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