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Sze-Fung Lee 李紫楓

@imleeszefung.bsky.social
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Independent analyst specializing in Chinese hybrid warfare as an integrated cross-domain system, with a focus on FIMI, gray-zone operations, and cognitive warfare. 🚏 Views expressed are my own. linktr.ee/szefung_lee

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Sze-Fung Lee 李紫楓 @imleeszefung.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
My latest @asia.nikkei.com documents a direct PRC #InfluenceOperations pipeline penetrating Japan's information space via news aggregators & regional TV broadcasters. 📍Xinhua (CN) → Xinhua (JPN) → Docomo / AU + Chiba TV → Japanese audience ⚡️Threads x 7 asia.nikkei.com/opinion/chin...
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Sze-Fung Lee 李紫楓 @imleeszefung.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
My latest @thejamestownfdn.bsky.social on PRC #CognitiveWarfare targeting Japan’s Security Normalization & Constitutional Amendment 📍Cross-Domain Ops > Cognitive Warfare at heart 📍Full dissemination chain – PRC IOs > news aggregators > Japan's information space jamestown.org/cognitive-wa...
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Sze-Fung Lee 李紫楓 @imleeszefung.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
My latest at Crossing – How the #LinChiLing controversy reveals a deeper strategic gap in #Taiwan's cultural #CognitiveWarfare The cognitive battlefield Taiwan hasn't figured out yet – how its own artists could be reverse-weaponized against PRC's #UnitedFrontWork in pop culture
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Sze-Fung Lee 李紫楓 @imleeszefung.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
#林志玲 親不 #親中 不重要——七天,一場請辭,這場爭論本身說明台灣有一件事還沒清楚 當北京過去二十年都在利用台灣藝人作為 #統戰 工具,台灣要如何以自己的藝人進行反向操作? 新鮮出爐在〈換日線〉的文章 談談這場台灣還沒想清楚的文化 #認知戰 ⚡️Threads x7 crossing.cw.com.tw/article/20760
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Sze-Fung Lee 李紫楓 @imleeszefung.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
My latest @thejamestownfdn.bsky.social on PRC #Consular Pop-ups in Canada 📍105 gray zone activities in 22 cities across 11 provinces 📍All PRC consulates & the PRC Embassy in Canada are involved 📍Sub-national #UnitedFront work targeting most provincial capitals ⚡️x 8 jamestown.org/consular-pop...
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Sze-Fung Lee 李紫楓 @imleeszefung.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
My latest @thejamestownfdn.bsky.social on PRC #Consular Pop-ups in Canada 📍105 gray zone activities in 22 cities across 11 provinces 📍All PRC consulates & the PRC Embassy in Canada are involved 📍Sub-national #UnitedFront work targeting most provincial capitals ⚡️x 8 jamestown.org/consular-pop...
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Sze-Fung Lee 李紫楓 @imleeszefung.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
My latest @japantimes.co.jp on Chinese consulates’ #GrayZone operations in Japan (and yes, Xue Jian is involved🙃) 📍60 gray zone pop-up events across 25 prefectures + 21 cities in Japan (2017-2025) 📍PRC Embassy in Japan + 5 PRC #Consulates involved ⚡️x 5 www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2...
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Sze-Fung Lee 李紫楓 @imleeszefung.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
A Tactical Framework to Counter and Prevent Transnational Repression w/ @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social by me & @marcuskolga.bsky.social @kentonthibaut.bsky.social nthibaut.bsky.social @nosumacero.bsky.social y.social @lisandranovo.bsky.social Threads⚡️x 7 www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-res...
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Sze-Fung Lee 李紫楓 @imleeszefung.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
On Global Taiwan Institute's podcast tdy discussing Chinese #HybridWarfare targeting #Taiwanese citizens via the issuance of ID cards, why cracking down has been proven so controversial (policy gaps & vulnerabilities) + Policy Recommendations Links below💬 mailchi.mp/globaltaiwan...
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Sze-Fung Lee 李紫楓 @imleeszefung.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
#PLAN & #CCG sailing in the usual “standard, professional and lawful manner” huh? Source: X @jaytaryela
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Sze-Fung Lee 李紫楓 @imleeszefung.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
My latest @aspi-org.bsky.social The Strategist on Tailored Psychological Warfare: A #Deepfake Video of Hong Kong Activists 📍Significance > a more tailored & comprehensive approach of psychological warfare 📍An early test for China's future ops Threads⚡️x 7 www.aspistrategist.org.au/tailored-psy...
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Sze-Fung Lee 李紫楓 @imleeszefung.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
My latest @thejamestownfdn.bsky.social on Taiwan Bounty: PRC Cross-Agency Operations Target Taiwanese Military Personnel 📍PRC's latest #HybridWarfare (Psychological warfare + Lawfare + IOs) targeting Taiwan's ICEFCOM 📍Tactics/ Agendas/ Implications Key findings⚡️x 7 jamestown.org/program/taiw...
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Sze-Fung Lee 李紫楓 @imleeszefung.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
My latest @globaltaiwan on PRC ID Cards and #HybridWarfare – Accumulated Impact on Taiwan & How to Counter It 📍How PRC cross-domain operations drive Taiwanese towards its "reunification" goal – Legally & Cognitively 📍Policy recommendations Threads Below⚡️x 12 globaltaiwan.org/2025/06/prc-...
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PRC ID Cards and Hybrid Warfare: The Accumulated Impact on Taiwan and Potential Countermeasures | Global Taiwan Institute
Following the Taiwanese government’s announcement that any nationals holding a People's Republic of China (PRC)-issued identity (ID) card or settlement certificate will have their citizenship revoked,...
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Dutch_OsintGuy @dutchosintguy.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
New blog: The Slow Collapse of Critical Thinking in OSINT due to AI "OSINT used to be a thinking game. Now it’s becoming a trusting game and that should terrify you." #OSINT #OSINT4good #AI Read the blog here: www.dutchosintguy.com/post/the-slo...
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Sze-Fung Lee 李紫楓 @imleeszefung.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Today @nytimes.com Imagine China knowing all US plans, and be able to “pre-empt, outflank or outsmart the Americans” in a potential Taiwan invasion — many thanks to such ridiculously unprofessional #OPSEC practices. Inspiring really🎃 nytimes.com/2025/03/27/b...
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Ron Deibert @rondeibert.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
China 🇨🇳 uses threat of defamation to silence academic + think tank research into disinformation and other topics... www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/t...
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Chinese Companies Use Legal Threats to Halt Foreign Research
Think tanks and universities have helped expose problematic Chinese business practices. Now, those businesses are accusing them of defamation.
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Sze-Fung Lee 李紫楓 @imleeszefung.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Numerous indicators in cross-domain operations have been signaling China’s incrementing strategies to actively prepare for a potential war on Taiwan (& US) This new underground command bunker is just one of them. And I'm sure there's more coming. We are running out of both time and options.
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Sze-Fung Lee 李紫楓 @imleeszefung.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Excited to share the news that I have been selected to join the #PacificForum Young Leaders Program (YLP)! I look forward to connecting with inspiring policy specialists and contributing to the conversations on #Indo-Pacific security and geopolitical challenges:)
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Sze-Fung Lee 李紫楓 @imleeszefung.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
My report @ChinaBriefJT on PRC Consulates Gray Zone 'Pop-Up’ Events is cited by @newyorktimes.com yesterday! Happy to share more data on these gray zone activities upon request:) Read the full report here💬 jamestown.org/program/dipl...
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Mike Forsythe 傅才德 @pekingmikenyt.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
THREAD: How China is influencing local elections in New York City, mobilizing organizations via a local power broker known as "The King of Brooklyn" (布鲁克林之王)to ensure that candidates who voice sympathy for Taiwan, or for Hong Kong democracy, are either defeated or never get elected. (1/x)
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Sze-Fung Lee 李紫楓 @imleeszefung.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
【FULL REPORT】PRC Consulates Gray Zone ‘Pop-up’ Events in New York & Beyond on Jamestown China Brief 📍90+ pop-ups in 15 cities across 7 states at non-designated diplomatic facilities eg. restaurants 📍Tactics/ Agendas/ Implications Key findings—Threads Below⚡️ jamestown.org/program/dipl...
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Lev Nachman @lnachman32.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
What Trump's return would mean for Taiwan: 1. Uncertainty in US-Taiwan relations. It is unclear if Trump's comments on Taiwan (stealing the US semiconductor industry, calling Taiwan the mob, dissatisfaction with Taiwan's defense spending) will lead to a cooler tone on Taiwan.
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Sze-Fung Lee 李紫楓 @imleeszefung.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
My part II on PRC Consulates Gray Zone ‘Pop-up’ Events in New York & Beyond on Jamestown China Brief 📍Influence operations + Case Studies 📍Pop-ups >> Cognitive Warfare reinforcing consular gray zone activities & Xi Jinping’s Ideological Campaign Threads ⚡️x 12 jamestown.org/program/part...
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Sze-Fung Lee 李紫楓 @imleeszefung.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
My latest on Jamestown Foundation China Brief -- PRC Consulates Gray Zone ‘Pop-up’ Events in New York & Beyond 📍90+ pop-ups in 15 cities across 7 states at non-designated diplomatic facilities eg. shopping malls/ restaurants 📍Agendas & Implications Threads⚡️x 12
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China Digital Times @chinadigitaltimes.net · 19/06/2024
Bookstores Become Sites of Subtle Protest Against Xi Jinping "[P]lacing Xi’s works next to other books to make a political point has become a relatively common, low-key mode of political dissent." chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/06/book...
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Bookstores Become Sites of Subtle Protest Against Xi Jinping
Chinese bookstore shelf arrangements rarely go viral—that is, unless they contain a hidden message calling for Xi Jinping to step down. Since Xi has risen to power, placing Xi’s works next to other bo...
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Sze-Fung Lee 李紫楓 @imleeszefung.bsky.social · 13/06/2024
My latest @ChinaBriefJT -- Hong Kong Gray Media's Influence Operation on Article 23 📍Top 5 #GrayMedia in #HongKong & their specialties 📍State affiliations 📍How they coordinate & incorporate legal/ cognitive warfare tactics for IOs Threads Below⚡️ x 15 jamestown.org/program/the-...
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Sze-Fung Lee 李紫楓 @imleeszefung.bsky.social · 25/05/2024
China is stepping up its Hybrid Warfare -- the world needs Cross-Domain #Deterrence against Beijing's aggression in the #Taiwan Strait — my latest on The Diplomat Threads below ⚡️💬 x 8 thediplomat.com/2024/05/with...
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Sze-Fung Lee 李紫楓 @imleeszefung.bsky.social · 15/05/2024
My latest @MLInstitute -- Full report on #TikTok 📍How does Beijing view TikTok? 📍What's special? TikTok vs other Chinese/ Western social media - surveillance & IOs 📍Influence Operations x Cognitive Warfare on TikTok - Case studies Threads below⚡️x 15 macdonaldlaurier.ca/tik-tok-chin...
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TikTok - CHINA’S GLARING TROJAN HORSE: How Beijing uses the intensely addictive app for digital surveillance and influence operations | Macdonald-Laurier Institute
Sze-Fung Lee looks at how and why TikTok serves as Beijing’s strategic tool to advance its political narratives and strategic agendas
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 15/05/2024
Threads finally starts its own fact-checking program
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Threads finally starts its own fact-checking program
Meta’s newest social network, Threads is starting its own fact-checking program after piggybacking on Instagram and Facebook’s network for a few months. Instagram head Adam Mosseri noted that the company “recently” rolled out the ability for fact-checkers…
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Sze-Fung Lee 李紫楓 @imleeszefung.bsky.social · 14/04/2024
😶This hashtag explained a lot
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 03/04/2024
Facebook takes on TikTok with a new, vertical-first video player
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Facebook takes on TikTok with a new, vertical-first video player
Facebook is introducing a new, fullscreen video player on Wednesday designed to offer a more consistent design and experience for all types of video lengths, including short-form Reels, long-form videos, and even Live content, the company says. The…
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Sze-Fung Lee 李紫楓 @imleeszefung.bsky.social · 03/04/2024
My latest on Jamestown China Brief -- Deepfakes with Chinese characteristics - projects 3 trends on how the PRC could weaponize #deepfakes for IOs in 2024 1/ Smear Campaigns + Spamouflage 2/ “Tell the Hong Kong Story Well” 3/ Electoral Interference Threads Below⚡️x 10 jamestown.org/program/deep...
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Sze-Fung Lee 李紫楓 @imleeszefung.bsky.social · 03/04/2024
Taking advantage of a natural disaster to advance PRC’s claim on Taiwan — unsurprising but it’s really a revolting habit, Beijing
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Sze-Fung Lee 李紫楓 @imleeszefung.bsky.social · 25/03/2024
⚠️ DOJ charges on the #Hackers of the #APT31 Group  #APT31Group — 📍A part of a cyberespionage program  📍Run by the #PRC Ministry of State Security 📍Targeted thousands of 🇺🇸 🌎 individuals + companies 📍Eg. White House & DOJ officials, Members of #IPAC, and Hong Kong pro-democracy #activists
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Seven Hackers Associated with Chinese Government Charged with Computer Intrusions Targeting Perceived Critics of China and U.S. Businesses and Politicians
An indictment was unsealed today charging seven nationals of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) with conspiracy to commit computer intrusions and conspiracy to commit wire fraud for their involvemen...
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Sze-Fung Lee 李紫楓 @imleeszefung.bsky.social · 22/03/2024
My latest Global Taiwan Institute -- Decoding Beijing’s #GrayZone Tactics  China’s Gray Zone #Tactics help create favorable, if not, necessary conditions for its “reunification” ambition prior to kinetic warfare — it’s an early stage of #war. Threads Below⚡️💬 x 10 globaltaiwan.org/2024/03/deco...
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Decoding Beijing’s Gray Zone Tactics: China Coast Guard Activities and the Redefinition of Conflict in the Taiwan Strait | Global Taiwan Institute
Beijing’s recently displayed gray zone operations around Kinmen Island intertwine with legal and cognitive warfare—thereby forming a mutually reinforcing cycle that amplifies Beijing’s political narra...
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Sze-Fung Lee 李紫楓 @imleeszefung.bsky.social · 19/03/2024
My latest @irpp.bsky.social on Canada’s needs for #Deepfakes legislation:) Threads Below📍💬 x 16 policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/ma...
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Canada needs deepfake legislation yesterday
The Taylor Swift episode and China’s disinformation campaign in Taiwan show law to control deepfakes is urgently needed.
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Sze-Fung Lee 李紫楓 @imleeszefung.bsky.social · 23/02/2024
New Op-ed @MLI :) Taiwan’s decentralized network presents a compelling model for the world to learn from in terms of countering China's foreign interference. Looking back in CAN 🇨🇦 – we have none of these. So here's 10 #PolicyRecommendations  macdonaldlaurier.ca/ten-things-t...
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Ten things Taiwan can teach Canada about bolstering democratic resilience | Macdonald-Laurier Institute
Sze-Fung Lee explains how Canada can start filling the gaps in its disinformation response strategy by learning from Taiwan's example.
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Sze-Fung Lee 李紫楓 @imleeszefung.bsky.social · 10/02/2024
Super interesting read!
 Especially for the potential use of #LLM to combat #hashjacking and act as an audience response simulator to provide insights on how #StratCom products could be shaped🤔 Got some new ideas on what we can do with it🤫 stratcomcoe.org/publications...
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StratCom | NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence Riga, Latvia
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Sze-Fung Lee 李紫楓 @imleeszefung.bsky.social · 11/01/2024
2024 First op-ed in The Diplomat —on Taiwan’s recent satellite alert and how Beijing leverages information manipulation tactics to spin the narratives toward its strategic agenda. (1/5)  thediplomat.com/2024/01/beij...
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Beijing Tries to Capitalize on Taiwan’s Controversial Rocket Alert
Taiwan issued a national alert following the launch of a satellite from China. Beijing has seized on the controversy to advance its own interests.
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Sze-Fung Lee 李紫楓 @imleeszefung.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
Biden just called Xi a Dictator at the San Francisco media conference--did he accidentally drink truth serum or something loll--or is this another calculated slip of the tongue🌚
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Biden Calls Xi a Dictator, Risking China Backlash
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Sze-Fung Lee 李紫楓 @imleeszefung.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
The Kuomintang (KMT) and the Taiwan People's Party (TPP) reached consense to run together for the upcoming Taiwan presidential election (1/5)
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藍白合成局!達成6點共識 周六公布結果 | 聯合新聞網
藍白合終露曙光,歷經2.5小時協商,藍白政黨協商第二次會議取得共識,由藍白各推薦一位民調統計專家,檢視評估11月7日至1...
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Sze-Fung Lee 李紫楓 @imleeszefung.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
🥲
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Some sad news – The China Project
Some sad news
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Sze-Fung Lee 李紫楓 @imleeszefung.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
可惜了 李克強不是胡耀邦 也成為不了胡耀邦 中國人還有能輸的前提下就不會爆發第二場白紙革命 十年退讓在此 到死後訃告也要被用作讚揚習功勞 如果再讓你活一遍 你還會作一樣的選擇嗎
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Sze-Fung Lee 李紫楓 @imleeszefung.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
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China's former Premier Li Keqiang dies at 68
CCTV reports he suffered a heart attack on Thursday
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Hans Kristensen @nukestrat.bsky.social · 29/09/2023
Informative report from GAO on the future verification challenges facing nuclear arms control. www.gao.gov/assets/gao-2...
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Sze-Fung Lee 李紫楓 @imleeszefung.bsky.social · 23/08/2023
BRICS host & security: ohh no we overestimated Xi’s language abilities
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Sze-Fung Lee 李紫楓 @imleeszefung.bsky.social · 18/08/2023
Roadblocks Musk established to hamper Twitter data scraping/ analysis: 1) Removal of state-affiliated entities' labels 2) Blue ticks for any paid subscribers = anyone $$ 3) Removal of Hamilton 2.0 Dashboard API access 4) Putting TweetDeck behind a paywall
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Sze-Fung Lee 李紫楓 @imleeszefung.bsky.social · 09/08/2023
Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM Canada)—a unit at Global Affairs Canada (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) that specializes in identifying and responding to foreign threats to democracies—detected an information operation on WeChat targeting MP Michael Chong that is likely conducted by China. (1/5)
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Rapid Response Mechanism Canada detects information operation targeting member of Parliament
The Government of Canada maintains the strength and resilience of Canada’s democratic institutions through vigilance, including by monitoring the digital information environment for threats, such as...
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