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.
I love it when posts like this are made with way more upvotes than downvotes. Sure though, you’re an endangered minority and the commies are out to get you. The most red thing about lemmy are the downvotes that people get for disagreeing with your sentiment.
I’m under no delusions that Western communists have enough popularity or support to actually enact your dreams of a hostile takeover of Europe or the U.S. My only point was that Lemmy is a haven for you and you do make up the majority here, it seems.
I suppose Lemmy allowing for an opinion other than yours to exist makes it a “haven” but I don’t know why you think that’s a bad thing. Something tells me you’d love a dictatorship if it was yours. I bet you also count the deaths of nazis as “deaths under communism”. You don’t know a damned thing about my dreams, and you certainly don’t understand the meaning of “majority” when you think you having way more upvotes than downvotes means people who disagree with you are a majority.