🚨 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.
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The documents also show that agencies including state media, propaganda departments, police, military and cyber regulators are purchasing new or more sophisticated systems to gather data.
These surveillance dragnets are part of a wider drive by Beijing to refine its
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These surveillance dragnets are part of a wider drive by Beijing to refine its
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foreign propaganda efforts through big data and artificial intelligence.
They also form a network of warning systems designed to sound real-time alarms for trends that undermine Beijing’s interests.
Some of the Chinese government’s budgeting includes buying and
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They also form a network of warning systems designed to sound real-time alarms for trends that undermine Beijing’s interests.
Some of the Chinese government’s budgeting includes buying and
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maintaining foreign social media accounts on behalf of police / propaganda departments. Yet others describe using the targeted analysis to refine Beijing’s state media coverage abroad.
Public opinion analysis systems are extensively used by state media, police and military.
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Public opinion analysis systems are extensively used by state media, police and military.
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- a $320K state media software program that mines Twitter and Facebook to create a database of foreign journalists and academics
- a $216K Beijing police intelligence program that analyses Western chatter on Hong Kong and Taiwan
- a Xinjiang cybercenter cataloguing
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- a $216K Beijing police intelligence program that analyses Western chatter on Hong Kong and Taiwan
- a Xinjiang cybercenter cataloguing
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Uyghur language content abroad
- a $300K foreign personnel analysis platform
- a $236K system for Fuzhou’s municipal propaganda department to monitor Facebook and Twitter alongside domestic social media
- a $30,570 service for Beijing Police Intelligence Command Unit to
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- a $300K foreign personnel analysis platform
- a $236K system for Fuzhou’s municipal propaganda department to monitor Facebook and Twitter alongside domestic social media
- a $30,570 service for Beijing Police Intelligence Command Unit to
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trawl foreign social media and produce reports on unspecified key personnel and organizations
- a 3-year $531K contract to provide a China-related foreign media and journalist opinion monitoring system that monitors overseas social media on behalf of China’s Foreign
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- a 3-year $531K contract to provide a China-related foreign media and journalist opinion monitoring system that monitors overseas social media on behalf of China’s Foreign
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Ministry and produces comprehensive regular reports, as well as special briefings in urgent circumstances
- a $42K system for Nanping city’s police bureau that supports collection, discovery, and warning functions for Twitter and Facebook social media data according to
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- a $42K system for Nanping city’s police bureau that supports collection, discovery, and warning functions for Twitter and Facebook social media data according to
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different classifications and keyword groups, as well as overseas information lists
- a $43K system for the police in central China’s Shangnan county that includes a “foreign sensitive information” collection system
- a PLA contract for a system that trawls foreign
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- a $43K system for the police in central China’s Shangnan county that includes a “foreign sensitive information” collection system
- a PLA contract for a system that trawls foreign
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sites and categorizes data on the basis of affiliation, geography and country
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