Tag: Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian

Planet Earth from Space, People's Republic of China warm glow highlighted state borders and counties animation, city lights, 3d illustration

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Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
October 20, 2021

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Business and Finance, Censorship, Global Technology

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Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, censorship, China, Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), LinkedIn}

LinkedIn Says Goodbye to China

_{If the blasé business world of LinkedIn cannot pass the Cyberspace Administration of China’s rules, then what platform can?} _{Heather Zeiger

October 20, 2021

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Business and Finance, Censorship, Global Technology}

LinkedIn announced that it will no longer host social media and content sharing in China. Instead, it’s China-only app will be a job-board site. This comes after LinkedIn received criticism for blocking certain researcher profiles in China as well as human rights advocates and journalists who write on China. LinkedIn, which was bought by Microsoft in 2016, was one of the only U.S.-based social media outlets still operating within China. Twitter, Facebook (including Instagram, WhatsApp), and YouTube (owned by Alphabet, Inc.) are banned. Google (also owned by Alphabet, Inc.) left in 2010. Signal and Clubhouse were banned in 2021. Other apps, such as TikTok (owned by ByteDance, Inc.) have their own Chinese version that complies with censors and data regulators. Read More ›

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Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
December 16, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Surveillance

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Axios (news medium), Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, China, China), Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Christine Fang, Christopher Wray, Cyber espionage, Economic espionage, Eric Swalwell, espionage, Fang Fang, Featured, Honey trap, Ministry of State Security (MSS, Nicholas Johnson}

Hi Tech and China: The Long Game re Spying in the United States

_{The relationship between California’s Eric Swalwell and Fang Fang could be a thriller. But they say it really happened} _{Heather Zeiger

December 16, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Surveillance}

An investigative report from news site Axios reveals that Christine Fang (better known as Fang Fang), a fundraiser for Representative Eric Swalwell (D.–California), not only interacted with political elites in California but cultivated relationships with two Midwestern governors. She is also accused of being a spy for China from 2011 to 2015. This story adds to the growing evidence that China is playing the long-game of influencing American politics: Start with promising figures at the bottom, not at the top: The case demonstrates China’s strategy of cultivating relationships that may take years or even decades to bear fruit. The Chinese Communist Party knows that today’s mayors and city council members are tomorrow’s governors and members of Congress.” Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian and Read More ›