#Newspaper
Twitter and TikTok in fake news firing line
//China’s political manipulation of social media sites has prompted a swift response from the Morrison government.
//In early 2019, a delegation of senior Australian government officials travelled to Shenzhen, China, where they were permitted into a gleaming, two-towered building in the city’s far west.
//The AEC’s idea was to open the lines of communication with the social media player, recognising the platform as a potential conduit for disinformation ahead of the May 18, 2019 federal election.
//Similar meetings took place in Silicon Valley with Twitter, Facebook and Google. But recognising #WeChat’s two million-plus user base in #Australia
//#Tencent was “receptive”, Rogers says, opening the way for a “collaborative relationship” during the 2019 campaign.
//However, just over 12 months later, an explosion of fake news around the world and the rise of misinformation and foreign government interference across almost all the biggest social media platforms has infuriated the Morrison government
//Twitter released an archive of 23,750 suspended accounts connected to Chinese state-backed Âinformation operations... These accounts aimed to sow discord across several fronts — including propaganda against Hong Kong protesters who are portrayed repeatedly as violent and referred to as “cockroaches”, and in linking the COVID-19 outbreak to Hong Kong or the US.
//Twitter is banned in China, but most of the misinformation is aimed at the Chinese-speaking Âdiaspora, including in Australia.
//WeChat has an estimated 2.9 million Australian users. Australian political parties believe the platform has the potential to affect election results in up to six federal seats, which have high numbers of Chinese-Australian voters.
//Its aim is to use Australian Âdiplomacy... to call out disinformation and shame the state actors behind fake news.
//the use of social media platforms in Australia “that are extensions of social platforms in authoritarian states” pose a particular problem.
//foreign state-sponsored social media campaigns can be conducted at any time in response to geopolitical developments, not just during elections.
//Australia needs to spend less on submarines and more on bolstering cyber defences and weeding out disinformation from strategic rivals, including China.
//“China is also being blamed for COVID-19, so they are reaching out around the globe to try and control these narratives,”
//The government has also tasked communications watchdog ACMA with developing a new #misinformation and news quality code of practice, in a bid to reduce the impact of fake news.
Full Article: The Australian, (11-Jul)
#ChinesePlatform #FakeNews #Tiktok #cyberdefence #SocialMedia #Election #Coronavirus #propaganda
Twitter and TikTok in fake news firing line
//China’s political manipulation of social media sites has prompted a swift response from the Morrison government.
//In early 2019, a delegation of senior Australian government officials travelled to Shenzhen, China, where they were permitted into a gleaming, two-towered building in the city’s far west.
//The AEC’s idea was to open the lines of communication with the social media player, recognising the platform as a potential conduit for disinformation ahead of the May 18, 2019 federal election.
//Similar meetings took place in Silicon Valley with Twitter, Facebook and Google. But recognising #WeChat’s two million-plus user base in #Australia
//#Tencent was “receptive”, Rogers says, opening the way for a “collaborative relationship” during the 2019 campaign.
//However, just over 12 months later, an explosion of fake news around the world and the rise of misinformation and foreign government interference across almost all the biggest social media platforms has infuriated the Morrison government
//Twitter released an archive of 23,750 suspended accounts connected to Chinese state-backed Âinformation operations... These accounts aimed to sow discord across several fronts — including propaganda against Hong Kong protesters who are portrayed repeatedly as violent and referred to as “cockroaches”, and in linking the COVID-19 outbreak to Hong Kong or the US.
//Twitter is banned in China, but most of the misinformation is aimed at the Chinese-speaking Âdiaspora, including in Australia.
//WeChat has an estimated 2.9 million Australian users. Australian political parties believe the platform has the potential to affect election results in up to six federal seats, which have high numbers of Chinese-Australian voters.
//Its aim is to use Australian Âdiplomacy... to call out disinformation and shame the state actors behind fake news.
//the use of social media platforms in Australia “that are extensions of social platforms in authoritarian states” pose a particular problem.
//foreign state-sponsored social media campaigns can be conducted at any time in response to geopolitical developments, not just during elections.
//Australia needs to spend less on submarines and more on bolstering cyber defences and weeding out disinformation from strategic rivals, including China.
//“China is also being blamed for COVID-19, so they are reaching out around the globe to try and control these narratives,”
//The government has also tasked communications watchdog ACMA with developing a new #misinformation and news quality code of practice, in a bid to reduce the impact of fake news.
Full Article: The Australian, (11-Jul)
#ChinesePlatform #FakeNews #Tiktok #cyberdefence #SocialMedia #Election #Coronavirus #propaganda
#OpenLetter #Netflix
The Dilemma with The Social Dilemma
To the creators of The Social Dilemma,
It is understandable to gloss over all the nuances when you only have 90 minutes to talk about a topic as daunting as social engineering through social media. To omit some critical ones seems a bit questionable, though. Perhaps there is a clever nod to internet culture by being meta and subtly trolling your own audience. We are no tech experts and have no experience in the large-scale manipulation of human behaviour. However, we do know that while the images and scenes you used in your documentary are true, the tales you spun with them are not.
Continue:
https://telegra.ph/The-Dilemma-with-The-Social-Dilemma-09-15
Written by: Hong Kong Echo
#FakeNews #SmartLampPost #misinformation
The Dilemma with The Social Dilemma
To the creators of The Social Dilemma,
It is understandable to gloss over all the nuances when you only have 90 minutes to talk about a topic as daunting as social engineering through social media. To omit some critical ones seems a bit questionable, though. Perhaps there is a clever nod to internet culture by being meta and subtly trolling your own audience. We are no tech experts and have no experience in the large-scale manipulation of human behaviour. However, we do know that while the images and scenes you used in your documentary are true, the tales you spun with them are not.
Continue:
https://telegra.ph/The-Dilemma-with-The-Social-Dilemma-09-15
Written by: Hong Kong Echo
#FakeNews #SmartLampPost #misinformation
With frozen good clampdown China points overseas as source of coronavirus
Chinese state media have cited the presence of the coronavirus on imported frozen food packaging, as well as scientific papers claiming that the coronavirus was circulating in Europe earlier than previously believed, as evidence that China may not have been its origin.
Unlike other countries, China cites frozen food packaging as a risk of spreading COVID-19, even though the World Health Organization (WHO) says neither food nor packaging is a known transmission route.
The Global Times, a nationalist tabloid published by the People’s Daily, has also promoted the theory that COVID-19 originated outside China.
Source: Reuters #Nov26
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-origin-idUSKBN2861A2
#China #COVID19 #WHO #Misinformation
Chinese state media have cited the presence of the coronavirus on imported frozen food packaging, as well as scientific papers claiming that the coronavirus was circulating in Europe earlier than previously believed, as evidence that China may not have been its origin.
Unlike other countries, China cites frozen food packaging as a risk of spreading COVID-19, even though the World Health Organization (WHO) says neither food nor packaging is a known transmission route.
The Global Times, a nationalist tabloid published by the People’s Daily, has also promoted the theory that COVID-19 originated outside China.
Source: Reuters #Nov26
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-origin-idUSKBN2861A2
#China #COVID19 #WHO #Misinformation
Canada Confirmed Detained Citizens Not Been Trial in China, Despite Confusing Message from China's Spokesperson
Canada said it has confirmed with China that the former diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor, who had been detained by China for 2 years, have not brought to trial, contrary to statements made by spokesperson of Chinese Foreign Ministry.
During a media briefing on Thursday, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying said the two men had been "arrested, indicted and tried" by Chinese authority. This was the first time China has publicly claimed to have taken the two to court.
Hua did not provide more information during the briefing. The Canadian Department of Global Affairs issued a statement on Thursday, saying that the Canadian Embassy in Beijing had spoken with the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and confirmed that both have not been put on trial. The statement said Chinese officials “confirmed that the confusion was caused by an inaccurate characterisation of the process made by the Chinese MFA spokesperson”
Source: Apply Daily #Dec11
#Canada #China #ChineseForeignMinistry #HuaChunYing #Misinformation #MichaelKovrig #MichaelSpavor
https://hk.appledaily.com/international/20201211/EKPEKEA7UZF2JEP3WOGDA3EYGI
Canada said it has confirmed with China that the former diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor, who had been detained by China for 2 years, have not brought to trial, contrary to statements made by spokesperson of Chinese Foreign Ministry.
During a media briefing on Thursday, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying said the two men had been "arrested, indicted and tried" by Chinese authority. This was the first time China has publicly claimed to have taken the two to court.
Hua did not provide more information during the briefing. The Canadian Department of Global Affairs issued a statement on Thursday, saying that the Canadian Embassy in Beijing had spoken with the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and confirmed that both have not been put on trial. The statement said Chinese officials “confirmed that the confusion was caused by an inaccurate characterisation of the process made by the Chinese MFA spokesperson”
Source: Apply Daily #Dec11
#Canada #China #ChineseForeignMinistry #HuaChunYing #Misinformation #MichaelKovrig #MichaelSpavor
https://hk.appledaily.com/international/20201211/EKPEKEA7UZF2JEP3WOGDA3EYGI
#MisInformation
China Misuses Photo of US Prisoners to Attack International #Boycott over #XinjiangCotton
China’s state media and Chinese netizens have been attacking multiple global fashion brands, which have decided to stop buying cotton from Xinjiang after concerns over reportedly forced labour in the industry.
In a press meeting on Mar 25, 2021, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, Hua Chunying, displayed a photo showing what she claimed to be “forced labour in America picking cotton”.
It was later discovered that the workers in the photo, taken at a cotton field in Texas in 1968, were prisoners. The intention of the shot, however, seemed to be more about concerns on the correctional system and racial discrimination in the US than “forced labour” as described by Hua.
Source: Stand News #Mar25
https://bit.ly/3rxFyHw
#Xinjiang #ConcentrationCamp #ForcedLabour #HuaChunying #US #China #ChineseNetizens
China Misuses Photo of US Prisoners to Attack International #Boycott over #XinjiangCotton
China’s state media and Chinese netizens have been attacking multiple global fashion brands, which have decided to stop buying cotton from Xinjiang after concerns over reportedly forced labour in the industry.
In a press meeting on Mar 25, 2021, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, Hua Chunying, displayed a photo showing what she claimed to be “forced labour in America picking cotton”.
It was later discovered that the workers in the photo, taken at a cotton field in Texas in 1968, were prisoners. The intention of the shot, however, seemed to be more about concerns on the correctional system and racial discrimination in the US than “forced labour” as described by Hua.
Source: Stand News #Mar25
https://bit.ly/3rxFyHw
#Xinjiang #ConcentrationCamp #ForcedLabour #HuaChunying #US #China #ChineseNetizens