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Gerry Shih

@gerryshih
21 posts
2023-12-28
New: Apple warned Indian journalists and opposition politicians they were attacked by a state hacker in Oct. We and @AmnestyTech found evidence India is using Pegasus again, and that the govt pressured Apple to deflect suspicion w/ @josephmenn Gift link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-12-28 View on X
Washington Post

Sources: India pressed Apple to come up with alternative explanations for warning Indian journalists and opposition politicians of state-sponsored iPhone hacks

NEW DELHI — A day after Apple warned independent Indian journalists and opposition party politicians in October that government hackers …

2023-12-11
New: Since 2020, the Disinfo Lab website has attacked US-based critics of the Modi govt while remaining anonymous. A Post investigation found it was formed and run by Lt Col Dibya Satpathy, aka Shakti, now an intelligence officer with R&AW https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-12-11 View on X
Washington Post

Sources detail Disinfo Lab: set up by an Indian intelligence officer to run a covert social media influence operation discrediting the Modi government's critics

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2023-11-21
Even podcast execs feel self censorship pressure. One creator told us Spotify execs felt uneasy about a podcast about ISRO's history giving credit to Nehru, or nervous about mentioning Tipu Sultan's invention of rockets
2023-11-21 View on X
Washington Post

Investigation: as Amazon and Netflix back down on daring films, self-censorship pervades the Indian streaming industry due to pressure from Modi's ruling BJP

MUMBAI — Over a three-decade career, the filmmaker Anurag Kashyap often trained a critical eye on his native India as he wove tales … X: @aaschapiro , @gerryshih , @gerryshih , @an...

Today, shows are scoured, re-edited to cut scenes of praying or god names. Greenlit projects like Suketu Mehta's Maximum City are quietly dropped. The RSS told us they don't want negative portrayals of India and Hinduism. “It's invisible censorship,” said Anurag Kashyap
2023-11-21 View on X
Washington Post

Investigation: as Amazon and Netflix back down on daring films, self-censorship pervades the Indian streaming industry due to pressure from Modi's ruling BJP

MUMBAI — Over a three-decade career, the filmmaker Anurag Kashyap often trained a critical eye on his native India as he wove tales … X: @aaschapiro , @gerryshih , @gerryshih , @an...

New: Under pressure from the Hindu right, Netflix and Amazon in India drop projects touching on political, social issues and documentaries. After “Tandav,” Amazon's head went into hiding and surrendered passport. Netflix execs feared risk of arrest. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-11-21 View on X
Washington Post

Investigation: as Amazon and Netflix back down on daring films, self-censorship pervades the Indian streaming industry due to pressure from Modi's ruling BJP

MUMBAI — Over a three-decade career, the filmmaker Anurag Kashyap often trained a critical eye on his native India as he wove tales … X: @aaschapiro , @gerryshih , @gerryshih , @an...

2023-09-27
1. How the BJP and Indian right uses a massive whatsapp pyramid model to spread election material that is often inflammatory and impossible to monitor — a machine that it pioneered and mastered like no party in the world. We went to Karnataka to observe https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-09-27 View on X
Washington Post

Staffers and allies of India's BJP detail how they crafted posts for a vast network of WhatsApp groups aimed at exploiting the fears of the Hindu majority

MUDBIDRI, India — At first, the WhatsApp messages touted roads paved, schools built, free food distributed to the poor … X: @malavtweets , @digitaldutta , @mparekh , @gerryshih , @...

2. How Facebook employees caught the Indian army spreading disinfo and targeting journalists in Kashmir, but didn't act for 18 months, citing fears about Modi govt backlash— a pattern with US tech giants in India W/ @josephmenn https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-09-27 View on X
Washington Post

Staffers and allies of India's BJP detail how they crafted posts for a vast network of WhatsApp groups aimed at exploiting the fears of the Hindu majority

MUDBIDRI, India — At first, the WhatsApp messages touted roads paved, schools built, free food distributed to the poor … X: @malavtweets , @digitaldutta , @mparekh , @gerryshih , @...

2023-01-26
The film had been banned, the social media censored. Now, the students huddled to watch what their government had deemed to be subversive foreign propaganda. China? No. They were in India, ostensibly the world's largest democracy, and watching the BBC. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-01-26 View on X
The Daily Beast

After an uproar, Twitter suspends US white nationalist Nick Fuentes' verified account, one day after lifting the Holocaust denier's ban that began in July 2021

both of whom were central to the “Stop the Steal” movement that culminated in the January 6th attack on the Capitol—have been suspended again. https://twitter.com/... @bonchieredst...

The film had been banned, the social media censored. Now, the students huddled to watch what their government had deemed to be subversive foreign propaganda. China? No. They were in India, ostensibly the world's largest democracy, and watching the BBC. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-01-26 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Twitter reinstates some Hindu nationalist accounts popular in India, including some denigrating Muslims, and blocks links to a BBC documentary on Narendra Modi

2021-02-13
*Pushes chips all in* https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-02-13 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: US investigators say hardware and firmware of Supermicro servers were tampered with as late as 2018, via chips with backdoors sending data to China

It has been two and a half years since … John Gruber / Daring Fireball : Bloomberg, at Long Last, Follows up on ‘The Big Hack’, and It's Nothing but a Pile of Sophistic Horseshit T...

2021-02-12
*Pushes chips all in* https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-02-12 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: US investigators say hardware and firmware of Supermicro servers were tampered with an extra chip loaded with backdoor code to send data to China

In 2010, the U.S. Department of Defense found thousands of its computer servers sending military network data to China …

2020-12-20
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/...
2020-12-20 View on X
Bloomberg

DOJ charges a China-based executive at Zoom with disrupting video meetings commemorating Tiananmen Square Massacre; Zoom says it terminated the employee

- Worker accused of disrupting Tiananmen Square commemorations  — Zoom says it fired Xinjiang Jin after internal investigation

2020-12-19
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/...
2020-12-19 View on X
Bloomberg

DOJ charges a China-based executive at Zoom with disrupting video meetings commemorating Tiananmen Square Massacre; Zoom says it terminated the employee

- Worker accused of disrupting Tiananmen Square commemorations  — Zoom says it fired Xinjiang Jin after internal investigation

2020-10-15
The enormous implications behind China's major digital currency/payment push ( which is not same as crypto) to get around US-dominated system @He_Shumei @jgarnaut Matthew Johnson @KaylaIzenman et al https://www.aspi.org.au/...
2020-10-15 View on X
ASPI

A look at DC/EP, China's new sovereign digital currency, and the policy drivers behind it, its architecture, and its expected impact on global finance

ASPI : Tweets: @he_shumei , @gerryshih , @aitkenadvisors , @aspi_org , @marcruby , and @aspi_org Tweets: Samantha Hoffman / @he_shumei : Just released: A new @ASPI_ICPC report 'Th...

2020-06-11
Zoom also censored Hong Kong protest leaders' video talks under Chinese pressure, HK figures tell us, as well as Tiananmen commemorations. Company acknowledges several events have been disrupted and says complying with govts as global firm “very difficult” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2020-06-11 View on X
Axios

US-based Chinese activists say Zoom closed their paid account after event commemorating Tiananmen; Zoom says it was complying with local law, has reactivated it

The U.S. video-conferencing company Zoom closed the account of a group of prominent U.S.-based Chinese activists after they held …

2020-04-09
Foxconn has workers work and live in groups of 20 to track health. Huawei cafeteria has banned softboiled eggs. TCL asks workers to bring their own hand-drying towel from home. Fascinating look at how China Inc is tiptoeing back to work. @evadou https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2020-04-09 View on X
Washington Post

A look at COVID-19-related health security measures in places like Foxconn's iPhone-making complex and Huawei's factories in China as they restart production

Disinfect hands and shoes at the factory gate.  Bring your own towel.  No sunny-side-up eggs.

2020-03-03
“A clean break with China is impossible. Apple relies on a workforce of more than three million indirect workers in China...migrant workers in China...exceed Vietnam's total population of 100 million.” Granular, classic WSJ A1 read on the China dilemma https://www.wsj.com/...
2020-03-03 View on X
MacRumors

Report: senior management at Apple rebuffed some operations execs' suggestion to relocate part of its manufacturing from China to Vietnam as early as 2015

Production on Apple's devices has been stymied in recent weeks due to delays caused by the coronavirus outbreak in China. Source: Wall Street Journal .

2020-03-02
There have long been rumors Uighurs were being sent out of XJ and compelled to work. Finally @annafifield found them on the east coast — at a factory making shoes for Nike https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2020-03-02 View on X
MacRumors

Report: Apple and its suppliers are among the 83 big companies benefitting from China's abusive labor transfer programs for Uyghur Muslims and other minorities

A report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute think-tank has named Apple among 83 other major companies benefiting …

2019-12-03
DNA-generated facial prediction, Western academic complicity — a story/thread so mind-bending that the video of a razed village might be (at risk of sounding insensitive)...the least surprising part. https://twitter.com/...
2019-12-03 View on X
New York Times

Chinese officials are gathering blood samples from Uighurs in a mass DNA collection effort for use by scientists researching using DNA to map facial images

Beijing's pursuit of control over a Muslim ethnic group pushes the rules of science and raises questions about consent.

2019-11-02
China announces its rolling out 5G today. “In the middle of the trade dispute and the actions against Huawei, it's even more important for China to show that they are continuing to move forward” @pstAsiatech says to @annafifield https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2019-11-02 View on X
Washington Post

China's three state-backed wireless carriers launch 5G in some cities, ahead of original 2020 date; China Mobile aims to bring 5G to 50+ cities by year's end

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