{"id":1800220,"date":"2023-01-09T15:50:23","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T20:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1800220"},"modified":"2023-01-09T15:51:31","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T20:51:31","slug":"daily-beast-reporter-used-to-work-for-sanctioned-chinese-military-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/daily-beast-reporter-used-to-work-for-sanctioned-chinese-military-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Beast Reporter Used To Work For Sanctioned Chinese Military Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fdaily-beast-reporter-used-to-work-for-sanctioned-chinese-military-company%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=1800220&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>Roger Sollenberger \u2013 a journalist responsible for dubiously sourced stories attacking high-profile conservatives like Herschel Walker and Rep. Matt Gaetz \u2013 previously worked for a Chinese Communist Party-linked company blacklisted by the U.S. government for its ties to the regime\u2019s military.<\/p>\n<p>Sollenberger, a reporter for <em>The Daily Beast<\/em>, is credited with breaking stories that targetted the Georgia Senate candidate, including reports about a secret son and allegations he paid for a woman\u2019s abortion. Sollenberger was also responsible for an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/herschel-walker-staffer-matt-schlapp-groped-my-crotch\">exclusive<\/a> story accusing American Conservative Union (ACU) Chairman Matt Schlapp of \u201cgroping\u201d a male staffer for Walker\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Described as a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2022\/10\/its-just-curiosity-meet-the-reporter-behind-the-herschel-walker-bombshells\">relative<\/a> newcomer to journalism,\u201d Sollenberger previously worked for the controversial Chinese Communist Party-linked drone company DJI.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2017, China-based\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/news\/police-chinese-drones-ccp\/\">DJI<\/a> has been flagged by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as \u201cselectively <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/interior-dept-grounds-aerial-drone-fleet-citing-risk-from-chinese-manufacturers-11572473703\">targeting<\/a>\u00a0government and privately owned entities within these sectors to expand its ability to collect and exploit sensitive U.S. data.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These fears have prompted the U.S. Department of Interior to ground its entire DJI drone fleet, \u201cciting increasing concerns about the national security risk from Chinese manufacturers.\u201d The Department of Defense and U.S. Army have also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/8\/20\/21376917\/drone-us-government-approved-dod-diu-uas-blue-china\">followed suit<\/a> due to national security and data privacy concerns, as DJI routinely <span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/04\/21\/world\/asia\/dji-drones-china.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s2\">complies<\/span><\/a> with data-sharing requests from the Chinese Communist Party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Recently, the company was sanctioned by the U.S. government and added to a blacklist over its ties to Beijing\u2019s military and role in the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s\u00a0surveillance of Uyghur Muslims in China.\u00a0DJI is <a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2022\/11\/pentagon-blacklists-chinese-drone-maker-dji-for-pla-links\/\">considered<\/a> a \u201cChinese military company,\u201d meaning its technologies are designed in a way that can support the People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA)\u2019s objectives.<\/p>\n<p><em>The<\/em>\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/04\/21\/world\/asia\/dji-drones-china.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">on a 2016 press briefing in China where DJI<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> spokesman Zhang Fanxi described how the company \u201cis complying with requests from the Chinese government to hand over data.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15391\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15391\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15391\" src=\"https:\/\/warroom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-08-at-9.02.54-PM-300x140.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"476\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/warroom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-08-at-9.02.54-PM-300x140.png 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-08-at-9.02.54-PM-1024x479-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-08-at-9.02.54-PM-768x359-1.png 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-08-at-9.02.54-PM-1536x718-1.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-08-at-9.02.54-PM-1320x617-1.png 1320w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-08-at-9.02.54-PM-750x351-1.png 750w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-08-at-9.02.54-PM-1140x533-1.png 1140w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-08-at-9.02.54-PM.png 1720w\"   style=\"display:none\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15391\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2015 Bio.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Despite these ties, a 2015 version of Sollenberger\u2019s professional bio notes he \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/lJVcA\">worked<\/a> for DJI,\u201d though the affiliation is excluded from his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/author\/roger-sollenberger\">bio<\/a> on\u00a0<em>The Daily Beast\u00a0<\/em>website. A separate webpage notes that he \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/QI2s2\">worked<\/a> for DJI North America;\u201d however, a video posted on the page can no longer be viewed by the general public.<\/p>\n<p>Sollenberger previously worked as the editorial director at 3D Robotics (3DR), a California-based consumer drone company. A former competitor to DJI, 3DR ultimately partnered with the Chinese Communist Party-linked company in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>3DR provided DJI drones with its \u201cSite Scan\u201d technology, which is often used for surveillance of people and properties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\">\u201cA drone with a high-resolution camera running the Site Scan software enables those working at every stage of a construction project to keep track of the design they\u2019re working towards. An architect can use it to scan the surface of where their building will be going and use that to create an accurate model from which to design their structure; engineers can use it to make sure they\u2019re building exactly as intended, and to catch any deviations from the original design models,\u201d explained a\u00a0<em>Quartz\u00a0<\/em>announcement regarding the partnership.<\/p>\n<p>The collaboration, however, had the potential to be used for a vast array of industries. As\u00a0<em>Quartz <\/em>explained:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\">\u201cIn the future, this sort of technology could be applied to any industry where objects need to be surveyed\u2014a farmer ensuring his crops are coming in as intended, for example, or transportation authorities checking up on the health of their infrastructure. But for now, Anderson and his team are focused on construction.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It is unclear whether this technology has been used by DJI drones engaged in the surveillance of Uyghur Muslims in China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Sollenberger \u2013 a journalist responsible for dubiously sourced stories attacking high-profile conservatives like Herschel Walker and Rep. Matt Gaetz \u2013 previously worked for a Chinese Communist Party-linked company blacklisted by the U.S. government for its ties to the regime\u2019s military. 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