News Alert: China harvests masses of data on Western targets from sites including Twitter and Facebook, documents show
| Hundreds of projects launched since 2020 show that Chinese police, state media and military are gathering data from Western social media sites to track perceived threats, according to a Washington Post review of hundreds of Chinese bidding documents, contracts and company filings. The surveillance dragnets are part of a drive by Beijing to refine its overseas propaganda efforts and flag "anti-China personnel." |
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| | | | News Alert | Dec. 31, 5:16 p.m. EST | | | | | Hundreds of projects launched since 2020 show that Chinese police, state media and military are gathering data from Western social media sites to track perceived threats, according to a Washington Post review of hundreds of Chinese bidding documents, contracts and company filings. The surveillance dragnets are part of a drive by Beijing to refine its overseas propaganda efforts and flag "anti-China personnel." | | | | | |
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