{"id":1179842,"date":"2022-01-02T10:19:39","date_gmt":"2022-01-02T15:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1179842"},"modified":"2022-01-02T10:19:41","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T15:19:41","slug":"china-harvesting-social-media-data-on-western-targets-to-equip-government-agencies-military-and-police-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-harvesting-social-media-data-on-western-targets-to-equip-government-agencies-military-and-police-report\/","title":{"rendered":"China Harvesting Social Media Data On Western Targets To Equip \u2018Government Agencies, Military And Police\u2019: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-harvesting-social-media-data-on-western-targets-to-equip-government-agencies-military-and-police-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1179842&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>China is leveraging its massive surveillance network to harvest the social media data of Western targets, according to a Washington Post review of \u201chundreds of Chinese bidding documents, contracts and company filings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is mining Western social media \u2014 such as Facebook and Twitter \u2014 to \u201cequip its government agencies, military and police with information on foreign targets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChina maintains a countrywide network of government data surveillance services \u2014 called public opinion analysis software \u2014 that were developed over the past decade and are used domestically to warn officials of politically sensitive information online,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/china-harvests-masses-of-data-on-western-targets-documents-show\/2021\/12\/31\/3981ce9c-538e-11ec-8927-c396fa861a71_story.html\">The Washington Post<\/a> explained. \u201cThe software primarily targets China\u2019s domestic Internet users and media, but a Post review of bidding documents and contracts for over 300 Chinese government projects since the beginning of 2020 include orders for software designed to collect data on foreign targets from sources such as Twitter, Facebook and other Western social media.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These documents also indicate that \u201cagencies including state media, propaganda departments, police, military and cyber regulators are purchasing new or more sophisticated systems to gather data.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese include a $320,000 Chinese state media software program that mines Twitter and Facebook to create a database of foreign journalists and academics; a $216,000 Beijing police intelligence program that analyzes Western chatter on Hong Kong and Taiwan; and a cybercenter in Xinjiang, home to most of China\u2019s Uyghur population, that catalogues the mainly Muslim minority group\u2019s language content abroad,\u201d The Washington Post added.<\/p>\n<p>One Chinese analyst said that this system allows them to \u201cbetter understand the underground network of anti-China personnel.\u201d One such project they were tasked with involved \u201cproducing a data report on how negative content relating to Beijing\u2019s senior leadership is spread on Twitter, including profiles of individual academics, politicians and journalists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This monumental surveillance effort is part of China\u2019s mission to \u201crefine its foreign propaganda efforts through big data and artificial intelligence,\u201d The Post noted, as part of \u201ca network of warning systems designed to sound real-time alarms for trends that undermine Beijing\u2019s interests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mareike Ohlberg has researched China\u2019s domestic public opinion network as a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund, and said that China is now \u201creorienting part of that effort outward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ohlberg described the move as \u201cfrankly terrifying,\u201d and that it \u201creally shows that they now feel it\u2019s their responsibility to defend China overseas and fight the public opinion war overseas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This news provides further insight into China\u2019s widespread technological objectives. In a bombshell report in May 2021, for example, the Chinese Communist government was accused of testing an artificial intelligence (AI) emotion-detection camera system on Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang.<\/p>\n<p>A software engineer who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-57101248\">claimed<\/a> to have installed this facial and emotion detection system in police stations in the province home to 12 million ethnic minority Uyghurs said, \u201cThe Chinese government use Uyghurs as test subjects for various experiments just like rats are used in laboratories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe placed the emotion detection camera 3m from the subject. It is similar to a lie detector but far more advanced technology,\u201d the anonymous engineer explained, describing the use of the systems in police stations in Xinjiang. He then went on to describe the \u201crestraint chairs\u201d installed in police stations throughout China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour wrists are locked in place by metal restraints, and [the] same applies to your ankles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ian Haworth is an Editor and Writer for The Daily Wire. Follow him on Twitter at<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ighaworth\"> @ighaworth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"> member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China is leveraging its massive surveillance network to harvest the social media data of Western targets, according to a Washington Post review of \u201chundreds of Chinese bidding documents, contracts and company filings.\u201d The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is mining Western social media \u2014 such as Facebook and Twitter \u2014 to \u201cequip its government agencies, military &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1179842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}