The Chinese government has built up the world’s largest known online disinformation operation and is using it to harass US residents, politicians, and businesses—at times threatening its targets with violence, a CNN review of court documents and public disclosures by social media companies has found.

The onslaught of attacks – often of a vile and deeply personal nature – is part of a well-organized, increasingly brazen Chinese government intimidation campaign targeting people in the United States, documents show.

The US State Department says the tactics are part of a broader multi-billion-dollar effort to shape the world’s information environment and silence critics of Beijing that has expanded under President Xi Jinping. On Wednesday, President Biden is due to meet Xi at a summit in San Francisco.

Victims face a barrage of tens of thousands of social media posts that call them traitors, dogs, and racist and homophobic slurs. They say it’s all part of an effort to drive them into a state of constant fear and paranoia.

  • Tedesche
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    131 year ago

    I don’t for one second believe you need this history lesson; you’re just trolling, but for the sake of documentation.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro#:~:text=Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist and,reforms were implemented throughout society.

    There is no possible democracy in a one-party system, because all of the politicians you can vote for have to be approved one way or another by the only allowable party. This isn’t complicated, and the fact that you point to Cuban sources and claim that’s all that’s going on is pretty laughable. I could point to Iranian sources and claim that’s not a corrupt state, but it wouldn’t be true.

    Honestly, you sound exactly like one of the trolls described in the OP article, and this is the end of my convo with you. You’re either trolling or as detached from reality as a Trumper.

    • @bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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      Fidel is dead, btw. Who’s the dictator of Cuba? How are laws made in Cuba? What process do they go through?

      Maybe look into things like that before blindly spewing western propaganda.