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AlbertYZhang
@AlbertYZhang
Analyst @ASPI_org @ASPI_CTS Cyber, tech, intelligence, data science & security
Jul 24, 2023 • 25 tweets • 8 min read
1/ The CCP is ramping up its cyber-enabled interference in 🇦🇺 public discourse about domestic and foreign policy and it's gaining engagement from real users online #AusPol #Qanda Image 2/ In a new two-part Strategist article, @DaniellesCave and I expose a new coordinated inauthentic campaign targeting particular 🇦🇺 individuals and institutions, which we assess is likely linked to the CCP aspistrategist.org.au/chinas-cyber-i…
Nov 7, 2022 • 26 tweets • 9 min read
1/ New report from @DaniellesCave and I: 🇨🇳 cyber-enabled foreign interference continues to target women of Asian descent without consequential intervention from policymakers or social media platforms aspistrategist.org.au/musks-twitter-… 2/ We find that new iterations of the CCP-linked Spamouflage network - which Twitter attributed to the Chinese government in 2019 - are likely behind these ongoing harassment and trolling campaigns.
Oct 2, 2022 • 13 tweets • 6 min read
1/ Chinese state-linked inauthentic accounts appear to be flooding multiple social media and content platforms, including TikTok & SoundCloud, with pro-Chinese police content. The goal presumably is to bury Safeguard Defender's latest report on Chinese transnational policing 2/ On 12 September 2022, @SafeguardDefend, a human rights NGO based in Madrid, Spain, published an investigation into Chinese transnational policing tools for coercing claimed fugitives to return to China. Read the report here: safeguarddefenders.com/en/blog/230000…
Aug 10, 2022 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
1/ In the mad rush to push out CCP propaganda on Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, SPAMOUFLAGE/DRAGONBRIDGE accounts are mistakenly sharing links to the Google Translated page (from English to simplified Chinese) of articles involving Pelosi 2/ Ironically, the network is amplifying a FactChecking article that is countering misinformation and disinformation around Pelosi's expenses. The operators of these accounts are probably not carefully reading the articles but are amplifying anything that mentions Pelosi
Jul 11, 2022 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
1/ 'Digital repression across borders is on the rise.' A short update on @aspi research on transnational repression 👇 technologyreview.com/2022/07/08/105… 2/ Digital repression isn't a technological problem - it's an authoritarian one. According to @freedomhouse, 'China conducts the most sophisticated, global, and comprehensive campaign of transnational repression in the world.' freedomhouse.org/sites/default/…
Jun 3, 2022 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
1/ The Chinese Communist Party has a problem with smart Asian women. See my latest Strategist article co-authored with my colleague @DaniellesCave aspistrategist.org.au/smart-asian-wo… 2/ For months now, some of the world's leading China journalists and human rights activists have been the targets of an ongoing, coordinated and large-scale information and silencing campaign.
Apr 19, 2022 • 12 tweets • 10 min read
1/ In addition to 🇯🇵 missile units, pro-CCP accounts have been expanding the scope of their information operations this year. Here's a thread on the latest narratives being disseminated: (1) 'Milk Tea Alliance' on Covid-19's origin (2) #Accelerationism (3) US cultural invasion 2/ Firstly, hundreds of pro-CCP are spamming a Tumblr article published under the name of the 'Milk Tea Alliance'. It's unlikely the 'Milk Tea Alliance' would actually publish such a document since it is a democracy and human rights movement and not an organisation. Image
May 26, 2021 • 23 tweets • 9 min read
🚨 A thread on Adnow LLP and its subsidiary, FAZZE, an advertising agency linked to 🇷🇺 offering 🇫🇷 and 🇩🇪 influencers money to undermine the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine with negative fake stories 👇 This is not a comprehensive investigation but identifies some leads:
1. Adnow LLP was likely a shell company set up by a
🇷🇺 company registration service
2. A registered address of Adnow is linked to money launderers and BTC-e - a cryptocurrency platform used by 🇷🇺 intel agencies
Dec 2, 2020 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
After @arielbogle started seeing multiple accounts being created on the day Lijian Zhao posted the provoking tweet just to interact with the tweet, we took a deeper dive As of 12:45PM 2nd December 2020, Lijian Zhao's tweet has over 18K replies, 15K retweets (including quoted retweets) and 54K likes.