Experts say Spamouflage Dragon, China's yearslong disinformation campaign targeting the US, has largely failed due to China missing cultural context and more
but no one is looking at it. https://www.wired.com/... @WIRED Tori Elliott / @telliotter : There's a lot of talk about China's disinfo/propaganda efforts, but turns out... they're pretty bad at it? Th...
Tech insiders and academics say most independent Uyghur-run websites ceased to exist as Beijing's crackdown in the Muslim-majority Xinjiang region unfolded
a future for their own society.” https://www.wired.com/... Masha Borak / @mashaborak : “It's like erasing the life work of thousands and thousands of people to build something—a future for their own s...
If Roe v. Wade is overturned, the enforcement of US laws should be seen as an urgent argument for strengthening encryption, not weakening it
Riana Pfefferkorn / Stanford CIS Blog : Tweets: @hipsterelectron , @decryption , and @christophera Tweets: @hipsterelectron : another bit that made my eyes widen: diffie-hellman key exchange was publ...
An interview with a former Xinjiang prisoner, who details how China extensively uses tech like Hikvision surveillance cameras to facilitate human rights abuses
The rare firsthand account will help investigate human rights abuses — For 10 months in 2018, Ovalbek Turdakun was a prisoner … Tweets: @martijn_grooten and @kennwhite Tweets: @martijn_grooten : I k...
An interview with a former Xinjiang prisoner, who details how China extensively uses tech like Hikvision surveillance cameras to facilitate human rights abuses
The rare firsthand account will help investigate human rights abuses — For 10 months in 2018, Ovalbek Turdakun was a prisoner … Tweets: @martijn_grooten , @kennwhite , @zackwhittaker , and @zackwhit...
An overview of Apple's three new “Child Safety” initiatives, what critics are getting wrong, and the completely legitimate slippery slope concerns from experts
*without asking.* https://twitter.com/... Kontra / @counternotions : If you must read only one article to see the absurdity of the bombastic headline regurgitation currently being spewed about Apple's...
Some expat YouTubers in China are posting seemingly coordinated videos defending China on Xinjiang and other topics, likely spreading government disinformation
Foreign video bloggers denouncing what they say is negative coverage of China on highly controversial subjects such as Xinjiang … Tweets: @mollymckew and @williamyang120 Tweets: Molly McKew / @mollymc...
Elon Musk is either trading on his unique ability to move the price of Bitcoin and Dogecoin, or just trolling, and both scenarios are bizarre and incredible
As Elon Musk reverses his Bitcoin sentiment … Matthew Fox / Insider : Ethan Allen stock is soaring as traders confuse its ticker with the identical one for ether Scott Chipolina / Decrypt : Ark Invest...
Platforms like Douyin in China have become live online labs where grassroots nationalists and state media collaborate to harass critics at home and abroad
Dozens of companies over the past three years have announced boycotts of Xinjiang cotton given widespread reports of detention … Tweets: @xu_xiuzhong Tweets: Vicky Xu / @xu_xiuzhong : .@ZeyiYang did s...
Oracle has been marketing its data analytics software to police in China, detailing its ability to mine DNA, vehicle records, and facial recognition databases
Police in China's Liaoning province were sitting on mounds of data collected through invasive means: financial records … Tweets: @marahvistendahl , @bethanyallenebr , @gadyepstein , @globalhighered , ...