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• @marahvistendahl Mara Hvistendahl on x

  DOJ has charged a China-based executive at Zoom, and the allegations are wild https://www.justice.gov/... https://twitter.com/...

• @lmatsakis Louise Matsakis on x

  The Justice Department is accusing a Zoom employee of giving information about users *outside of China* to the Chinese government. The company has a lot to answer for here https://www.justice.gov/... https://twitter.com/...

• @nakashimae Ellen Nakashima on x

  Federal prosecutors accuse Zoom executive of working with Chinese government to surveil users and suppress video calls. One Tiananmen Square student leader whose Zoom acct was canceled told The Post the charges were “tremendous news.” @drewharwell & me. https://www.washingtonpost…

• @serpentza Winston Sterzel on x

  China-Based Executive of Zoom on direction of the CCP fabricated fake evidence against Tiananmen survivors to shut down their meetings, fabricating fake child porn and terrorist links and racist fake emails for example, the depths they stoop is disgusting https://www.justice.gov/…

• @cathyhe_et Cathy He on x

  Chinese exec of US videoconferencing co (likely Zoom) charged for his role in censoring video meetings marking Tiananmen Massacre Exec worked with PRC officials to shut down U.S.-based accounts by fabricating evidence that the meetings violated ToS - DOJ https://www.theepochtimes…

• @revmahoney Rev. Patrick Mahoney on x

  We have seen for years how the CCP has censored free speech in China & HK. Now we are seeing how they are targeting Americans. We cannot be silent on this issue! #HongKong @hk_watch @Stand_with_HK @FreedomHKG @SolomonYue @Fight4HongKong @hkdc_us @hkfp https://www.bloomberg.com/..…

• @_danielsinclair Daniel Sinclair on x

  “Jin, a Chinese citizen, began working with Chinese officials and others beginning in January 2019 to help terminate at least four video meetings hosted on the company's networks to mark the 31st anniversary of the massacre, DuCharme said.”

• @_danielsinclair Daniel Sinclair on x

  “Jin is also accused of helping the Chinese officials identify meeting participants outside of China by providing their IP addresses, names and email addresses. Prosecutors say he also created bogus reasons to justify Zoom terminating meetings and certain user accounts”

• @shelzhang Shelley Zhang on x

  And it only gets weirder from there, like planting fake email accounts to make it seem like Chinese dissidents were supporting terrorism and distributing child pornography. The whole release is worth reading. https://www.justice.gov/... https://twitter.com/...

• @thegrugq Thaddeus E. Grugq on x

  The DoJ was not amused with Zoom employees fucking about with Tiananmen Square massacre commemorations. https://www.justice.gov/... https://twitter.com/...

• @sarahemclaugh Sarah McLaughlin on x

  He was reportedly working with the Chinese government to interfere with Americans' ability to hold calls about the Tiananmen Square massacre. Disgusting. https://twitter.com/...

• @niubi Bill Bishop on x

  Our Perspective on the DOJ Complaint - Zoom Blog remarkable statement. https://blog.zoom.us/...

• @shelzhang Shelley Zhang on x

  Hey if you ever wondered whether Zoom's executives in China accessed user information from outside China and sent it to the Chinese government, the answer is yes. https://www.justice.gov/... https://twitter.com/...

• @jsrailton John Scott-Railton on x

  This looks bad: @zoom_us CEO @ericsyuan & the indicted executive discussed giving Chinese state security officers company accounts to communicate privately with them. https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @thejusticedept Justice Department on x

  China-Based Executive at U.S. Telecommunications Company Charged with Disrupting Video Meetings Commemorating Tiananmen Square Massacre Defendant Coordinated with the People's Republic of China to Target Dissidents and Disrupt Meetings https://www.justice.gov/...

• @wadhwa Vivek Wadhwa on x

  Zoom needs to accelerate its move out of China. It gets hardly any business from there and will be much better off completely cutting ties with the communist government. After speaking several times to Zoom executives, I know the company is trying very hard. https://twitter.com/.…

• @kimzetter Kim Zetter on x

  A LinkedIn page that appears to be his indicates he works for WebEx, but Reuters is reporting that he worked for Zoom (h/t @seanlawson) https://www.reuters.com/...

• @nicole_hong Nicole Hong on x

  Zoom said its internal investigation has so far found the employee did share user data with Chinese officials, but “fewer than ten” of those users were based outside China. Full company statement here: https://blog.zoom.us/...

• @billgertz Bill Gertz on x

  Zoom? They disrupted Tiananmen anniversary meetings https://twitter.com/...

• @kimzetter Kim Zetter on x

  Wow, this is bold. Employee of a US telecom, who was based in China, has been charged w/ disrupting video-conference meetings held in May and June this year by parties in the US to commemorate the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in China. https://www.justice.gov/...

• @zhoufengsuo @zhoufengsuo on x

  There should be a congressional hearing on $Zoom @zoom_us, there are still many unanswered questions. The company must be held accountable. So far it hasn't shown any remorse, not even an apology to the organizers and participants of the meetings. https://twitter.com/...

• @yaqiu @yaqiu on x

  Worth read in full. It seems this China-based employee was doing more than “complying with local law.” While Zoom leadership might not be aware of some of his activities, it at least was a failure of oversight. https://www.justice.gov/...

• @kenroth Kenneth Roth on x

  US prosecutors charge a China-based executive at Zoom, acting at the request of the Chinese government, with disrupting video meetings including US participants that were commemorating the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown. https://www.reuters.com/... https://twi…

• @film_girl Christina Warren on x

  Stop. Using. Zoom. https://twitter.com/...

• @chuckrossdc Chuck Ross on x

  This one's wild https://twitter.com/...

• @jchengwsj Jonathan Cheng on x

  U.S. prosecutors charged a China-based Zoom executive with disrupting commemorations of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. “A lot of tech companies will say, ‘we have to follow local laws’...It doesn't just mean within the borders of China.” @aviswanatha https://www.wsj.com/...

• @gerryshih Gerry Shih on x

  Prosecutors said the China-based executive, Xinjiang Jin, worked as Zoom's primary liaison with Chinese law enforcement and intelligence services, sharing user information and terminating video calls at the Chinese government's request. https://twitter.com/...

• @zhoufengsuo @zhoufengsuo on x

  Well done @FBI , thank you for months of hard work to hold the perpetrator accountable, as the organizer of the Tiananmen Massacre commemoration meeting in May on Zoom. This is the first time that law enforcement in U.S. is protecting our freedom against CCP China's violations ht…

• @marcorubio Marco Rubio on x

  Federal prosecutors say ⁦@zoom_us⁩ helped #China spy on and suppress U.S. calls https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

• @benthompson Ben Thompson on x

  From May https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...