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Isaac Stone Fish

@isaacstonefish
22 posts
2026-01-14
Excellent reporting from the New York Times at a scam center in Myanmar. Well worth reading. https://www.nytimes.com/... [image]
2026-01-14 View on X
New York Times

A look at a Myanmar online scam center that opened in 2024 with 3,500+ workers from nearly 30 countries and closed in November 2025 after rebels captured it

Times journalists got a rare look inside one of the compounds where the online fraud industry makes its billions.

2025-09-09
If you read just one thing on the dark side of American tech companies in China, make it this piece. https://apnews.com/... [image]
2025-09-09 View on X
Associated Press

Investigation: IBM, Dell, HP, Cisco, Oracle, Microsoft, Intel, Nvidia, and other US tech companies helped design and build China's digital surveillance state

BEIJING (AP) — The body camera hung from the top of the IV drip, recording the slightest twitch made by Yang Guoliang as he lay bloody …

2025-01-28
The censorship and propaganda in DeepSeek is so pervasive and so pro-Communist Party that it makes TikTok look like a Pentagon press conference. [image]
2025-01-28 View on X
Wired

Hands-on with DeepSeek's free chatbot: the R1 model is powerful, but suffers from rampant hallucinations and lacks some ChatGPT tools like the memory feature

DeekSeek's chatbot with the R1 model is a stunning release from the Chinese startup.  While it's an innovation in training efficiency, hallucinations still run rampant.

2023-06-08
Oops. “China is not going to decouple its markets from global markets,” said the private equity investor at MassPRIM, which manages $100bn in pensions for Massachusetts state employees and teachers. https://www.ft.com/...
2023-06-08 View on X
Financial Times

Sequoia's Roelof Botha says splitting the VC stops the trio from rubbing against one another; sources: China arm manager Neil Shen agitated for a separate unit

Financial Times :

2023-02-14
I'm just shocked — shocked! — that @elonmusk's twitter is muzzling Chinese activists. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2023-02-14 View on X
New York Times

Over 30 prominent Chinese dissidents and activists report problems with their Twitter accounts, including disappearing from search or unexplained suspensions

As the Elon Musk-owned social media service encounters interruptions and bugs, Chinese dissidents and activists said they feared they were being muzzled. Tweets: @sarahemclaugh , @...

2022-11-29
Where is Alibaba founder Jack Ma? Turns out he has been living in Tokyo for the last six months, collecting modern art, travelling to the United States and Israel — and staying out of China. https://www.ft.com/...
2022-11-29 View on X
Financial Times

Sources: Jack Ma has been living in central Tokyo for nearly six months, keeping public activities to a minimum, after China's crackdown on tech and businessmen

Billionaire has spent almost six months in Japan after largely disappearing from public view

2022-11-03
TikTok just acknowledged to European users that it can share their data with the Chinese government. This is a massive admission, and a key to a puzzle. To understand why, it's important to understand CCP influence in Chinese companies (thread). https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
2022-11-03 View on X
The Guardian

TikTok plans to update its privacy policy on December 2 to confirm that its staff outside of Europe, including in China, can access the data of European users

Privacy policy update confirms data of continent's users available to range of TikTok bases including in Brazil, Israel and US

2022-07-05
A hacker is selling billions of records of Chinese data stolen from police in Shanghai, at least some of which is legitimate. If confirmed, it would mark one of history's largest leaks of personal data. https://www.wsj.com/...
2022-07-05 View on X
Bloomberg

An unidentified hacker on a forum is selling 23TB+ of allegedly stolen data on up to 1B Chinese residents for 10 BTC, after breaching a Shanghai police database

Good morning, and welcome to Tuesday's Asia Links Sead Fadilpašić / TechRadar : Mystery hacker claims to have conducted one of the largest data heists in history Adam Robertson / c...

2022-01-31
“A whistleblower who exposed illegal working conditions in a factory making Amazon's Alexa devices says he was tortured before being jailed by Chinese authorities.” https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
2022-01-31 View on X
The Guardian

A Chinese whistleblower, whose revelations about Amazon's supply chain led to Foxconn paying compensation to workers, says he was tortured before being jailed

Tang Mingfang is willing to risk reprisals to clear his name over Foxconn revelations - and to get backing from Jeff Bezos

2021-12-25
Like so many companies, Intel is caught between the United States and China. “For companies like Intel, we must remember all the wrongs they have done. As China gets stronger, we will have more power to retaliate against them.” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2021-12-25 View on X
Bloomberg

Intel apologizes, following a backlash in China, for telling Chinese suppliers to avoid Xinjiang labor, saying it only did so to “ensure compliance” with US law

Tech companies withdraw from in-person CES Simon Sharwood / The Register : Intel ‘regrets’ offending China with letter telling suppliers to avoid Xinjiang Liza Lin / Wall Street Jo...

2021-12-24
Like so many companies, Intel is caught between the United States and China. “For companies like Intel, we must remember all the wrongs they have done. As China gets stronger, we will have more power to retaliate against them.” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2021-12-24 View on X
Bloomberg

Intel apologizes, following a backlash in China, for telling Chinese suppliers to avoid Xinjiang labor, saying it only did so to “ensure compliance” with US law

Tech companies withdraw from in-person CES Simon Sharwood / The Register : Intel ‘regrets’ offending China with letter telling suppliers to avoid Xinjiang Agence France-Presse : In...

2021-12-17
In 2020, a Chinese AI company won a contract from a Chinese military academy to provide battlefield command software. What happened next? Goldman Sachs invested in the company, helping it raise $700 million. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2021-12-17 View on X
Axios

The US bans investing in eight Chinese companies, including DJI and Megvii, for their alleged involvement in surveilling Uyghurs and other minority groups

The Treasury Department has added eight Chinese companies — including DJI, the world's largest commercial drone manufacturer … Source: U.S. Department … .

In 2020, a Chinese AI company won a contract from a Chinese military academy to provide battlefield command software. What happened next? Goldman Sachs invested in the company, helping it raise $700 million. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2021-12-17 View on X
Washington Post

The Biden administration is concerned with US investments in Chinese companies developing “dual use” tech that could have civilian and military applications

Last year, a fast-rising artificial intelligence company in China won a little-noticed contract from a Chinese military academy …

2021-09-09
“The activity represents the first known example of suspected China-linked actors targeting Americans with the apparent goal of encouraging them to attend real-world demonstrations.” https://www.wsj.com/...
2021-09-09 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Researchers: China-linked fake social media accounts tried to draw Asian-Americans to protests against racism; Facebook, YouTube, Twitter suspended the accounts

Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal : Source: FireEye .

2021-08-23
Excellent article about the rise and fall of Jack Ma. “If someone needs to go to jail for Alipay, let it be me,” he said during a 2015 TV interview. https://www.wsj.com/...
2021-08-23 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources detail how Jack Ma's relationship with China's leadership soured, as he failed to keep up with Beijing's shifting views and tuned out warnings for years

2021-08-07
Huawei “reported a 38% fall in quarterly revenue Friday, as the damage U.S. sanctions have done to its sales of smartphones and telecommunications equipment worsened. The drop marks the third straight decline in quarterly revenue for Huawei” https://www.wsj.com/...
2021-08-07 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Huawei reports Q2 revenue fell 38% YoY to ~$26B, greater than the 16.5% drop in Q1 and 11.2% drop in Q4, as US sanctions continue to hurt sales

Dan Strumpf / Wall Street Journal :

2021-08-06
Huawei “reported a 38% fall in quarterly revenue Friday, as the damage U.S. sanctions have done to its sales of smartphones and telecommunications equipment worsened. The drop marks the third straight decline in quarterly revenue for Huawei” https://www.wsj.com/...
2021-08-06 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Huawei reports Q2 revenue fell 38% YoY to ~$26B, up from a 16.5% drop in Q1 and 11.2% drop in Q4, as US sanctions continue to hurt sales

Revenue declines deepen amid U.S. restrictions on chip supply, pressure on buyers  —  HONG KONG—China's Huawei Technologies Co. reported a 38% fall …

2021-04-19
Reuters reports that Jack Ma may have to sell his stake in Ant Group, in yet another sign of Beijing's crackdown against the firm — and another signal for those investing in ‘private’ businesses in China. https://www.reuters.com/...
2021-04-19 View on X
Reuters

Sources: Ant Group is exploring options for founder Jack Ma to divest his stake and give up control to appease Chinese regulators

2021-02-18
“North Korea's operatives, using keyboards rather than guns, stealing digital wallets of cryptocurrency instead of sacks of cash, have become the world's leading bank robbers,” Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Demers said. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2021-02-18 View on X
Washington Post

DOJ charges three suspected North Korean hackers for allegedly conspiring to steal and extort over $1.3B in cash and cryptocurrencies from banks and businesses

AppleJeus: Analysis of North Korea's Cryptocurrency Malware  —  Summary Andy Greenberg / Wired : Feds Indict North Korean Hackers for Years of Heists and Scams Tweets: Eric Geller ...

2020-03-25
I find this incredibly disturbing from a civil liberties perspective. Also, DC is more than 1500 times more densely populated than Wyoming, so of course people would need to move around less. https://twitter.com/...
2020-03-25 View on X
Washington Post

Unacast, an analytics company using location data from a variety of apps, debuts a Social Distancing Scoreboard to grade how US citizens are adapting by region

or not. Data from tens of millions of smartphones grades counties & states by how much people are staying put. Washington, DC gets an A Wyoming gets an F See your county https://ww...