2022-12-20
The findings match a report published today by David Thiel from @stanfordio who reviewed millions of tweets by searching for 30 Chinese cities and found that bots were active before the protests began and continued after they had ebbed. https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/ ...
New York Times
An analysis shows how Chinese-language bots on Twitter drowned out tweets about protests over China's zero-COVID-19 policy, as people sought to evade censors
Twitter and its new owner, Elon Musk, have recently vowed to crack down on bots. But the flood of spam for Chinese users …
Twitter users were drowned with spam when they searched for information about the historic anti-lockdown protests in China. Through data analysis and interviews with people behind bots, we found that much of the spam is linked to commercial bot networks. https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
An analysis shows how Chinese-language bots on Twitter drowned out tweets about protests over China's zero-COVID-19 policy, as people sought to evade censors
Twitter and its new owner, Elon Musk, have recently vowed to crack down on bots. But the flood of spam for Chinese users …
“In retrospective research, historical Twitter data generally becomes ‘cleaner’ — some amount of spam and inauthentic behavior will have been removed ...ToS-violating or inauthentic content tends to appear most prevalent in the immediate past.” https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/ ...
New York Times
An analysis shows how Chinese-language bots on Twitter drowned out tweets about protests over China's zero-COVID-19 policy, as people sought to evade censors
Twitter and its new owner, Elon Musk, have recently vowed to crack down on bots. But the flood of spam for Chinese users …
2022-06-27
Here is our second story on China's surveillance ambitions: Awash in a sea of surveillance data, the police use software to recognize behavior patterns, detect aberrations and try to preemptively stop threats from materializing. W/ @paulmozur @JohnLiuNN https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
Hundreds of documents detail the software bought by China to sift through its vast troves of surveillance data to “predict” who will become troublemakers
The more than 1.4 billion people living in China are constantly watched. They are recorded by police cameras that are everywhere …
2020-11-23
Chips made by American companies are powering a supercomputing center in Xinjiang that's used to track people and process surveillance footage, reported by @paulmozur & Don Clark. https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
A look at Sugon, a Chinese company at the heart of the country's surveillance efforts, and how it uses Intel and Nvidia chips to analyze video feeds at scale
Intel and Nvidia chips power a supercomputing center that tracks people in a place where government suppresses minorities …