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Tubefilter: Congress is putting off its plan to regulate TikTok until 2024 (but GOP hopefuls still have takes)

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Tubefilter: Congress is putting off its plan to regulate TikTok until 2024 (but GOP hopefuls still have takes). “TikTok continues to face criticism from American politicians, but the Congressional plan to regulate the app is going on the back burner — at least until 2024. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), who heads the Senate Commerce Committee, told Reuters that Congress will not take up TikTok-oriented legislation until the calendar turns over to a new year.”

New York Times: Inside U.S. Efforts to Untangle an A.I. Giant’s Ties to China

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New York Times: Inside U.S. Efforts to Untangle an A.I. Giant’s Ties to China. “American spy agencies have warned about the Emirati firm G42 and its work with large Chinese companies that U.S. officials consider security threats.”

Rest of World: The end of anonymity on Chinese social media

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Rest of World: The end of anonymity on Chinese social media. “On October 31, Weibo, as well as several other major Chinese social media platforms including WeChat, Douyin, Zhihu, Xiaohongshu, and Kuaishou, announced that they now required popular users’ legal names to be made visible to the public. Weibo stated in a public post that the new rule would first apply to all users with over 1 million followers, then to those with over 500,000.”

WIRED: China Tried to Keep Kids Off Social Media. Now the Elderly Are Hooked

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WIRED: China Tried to Keep Kids Off Social Media. Now the Elderly Are Hooked. “Gao Xiangjin used to know all the names of players in the American baskeball leagues, but since relations between the US and China soured, once-daily NBA broadcasts are now far less frequent. So Gao started watching China’s men’s basketball instead, until reports about corruption turned him off earlier this year. He now watches China’s women’s basketball, not on television, but on Douyin, the original, Chinese version of TikTok. Gao is 69 years old, one of a growing cohort of elderly people who have moved away from television and gravitated to Douyin, China’s most popular short-form video app.”

The Indepdendent: South Korea exposes huge Chinese disinformation campaign involving 38 news websites

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The Independent: South Korea exposes huge Chinese disinformation campaign involving 38 news websites. “South Korea’s intelligence agency said it has identified 38 Korean-language news websites that are suspected of being run by Chinese companies with some allegedly spreading pro-China and anti-US content.”

NBC News: More Chinese migrants are crossing Panama’s jungle to come to the U.S.

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NBC News: More Chinese migrants are crossing Panama’s jungle to come to the U.S.. “The U.S. is seeing a big increase in Chinese immigrants arriving using a relatively new and perilous route through Panama’s Darién Gap jungle, thanks in part to social media posts and videos providing step-by-step guidance.”

Rappler: How pro-China propaganda is seeded online in the Philippines

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Rappler: How pro-China propaganda is seeded online in the Philippines. “Chinese influence in the Philippine online space is not new. In 2020, Facebook took down an ‘inauthentic network’ attributed to Chinese individuals…. A year before this, Facebook took down another inauthentic network composed of actors run by ‘individuals associated with the Chinese government’ in 2019. But even after the takedowns, several pro-China voices remained online in the Philippines.”

Reuters: Canada Bans Chinese App WeChat, Russia’s Kaspersky On Government Phones

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Reuters: Canada Bans Chinese App WeChat, Russia’s Kaspersky On Government Phones. “Canada on Monday banned popular Chinese messaging app WeChat and Russian platform Kaspersky from government smartphones and other mobile devices, citing privacy and security risks. The suite of applications would be immediately removed from government-issued devices and users will be blocked from downloading them in the future, said a statement.”

Taipei Times: Task force to combat false reports

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Taipei Times: Task force to combat false reports . “The Mainland Affairs Council has reached out to temples across Taiwan to promote awareness of Chinese misinformation campaigns, after national security agencies reported a ‘high occurrence’ of election disinformation being spread among the religious community, a senior government official said.”

BBC: Chinese bots targeted Trudeau and others – Canada

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BBC: Chinese bots targeted Trudeau and others – Canada. “Canada says it has detected a disinformation campaign likely tied to China that has targeted dozens of its politicians, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The ‘spamouflage’ campaign used waves of online posts to discredit Canadian MPs, the foreign ministry said.”

The Mainichi: Japan asks Google to revert map names of disputed E. China Sea islets

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The Mainichi: Japan asks Google to revert map names of disputed E. China Sea islets . “Japan’s Foreign Ministry said Friday it had asked Google Inc. to revert to only using Japan’s name on Google Maps for a group of islets controlled by Tokyo but claimed by China and Taiwan.”

South China Morning Post: Scam websites disguised as WhatsApp login pages top Google search results in Hong Kong despite efforts to remove them

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South China Morning Post: Scam websites disguised as WhatsApp login pages top Google search results in Hong Kong despite efforts to remove them. “Scam websites disguised as login pages for the WhatsApp messaging platform are still topping Google search results in Hong Kong despite efforts to remove them, prompting calls from experts for enhanced security measures given the low cost of advertising such fraudulent links.”

The Messenger: Weibo, a Chinese Social Media Giant, Will Force Its Most Popular Accounts to Reveal Their Identities

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The Messenger: Weibo, a Chinese Social Media Giant, Will Force Its Most Popular Accounts to Reveal Their Identities. “Weibo, one of China’s most popular social media platforms, will make its most popular accounts display their real names, breaking with long-held tradition on the internet for users to be able to hide their identities. Weibo CEO Wang Gaofei said the policy will apply to users with over one million followers and comment on topics including politics, finance and entertainment, Reuters reports.”

CNN: Baidu says its AI is in the same league as GPT-4

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CNN: Baidu says its AI is in the same league as GPT-4. “Chinese tech giant Baidu is officially taking on GPT-4. On Tuesday, the company unveiled ERNIE 4.0, the newest version of its artificial intelligence chatbot that it directly compared to the latest iteration of OpenAI’s ChatGPT.”

New York Times: Across U.S., Chinese Bitcoin Mines Draw National Security Scrutiny

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New York Times: Across U.S., Chinese Bitcoin Mines Draw National Security Scrutiny. “When a company with Chinese origins broke ground last year on a crypto-mining operation in Cheyenne, Wyo., a team at Microsoft that assesses national security threats sounded the alarm. Not only was the site next door to a Microsoft data center that supported the Pentagon — it was about a mile away from an Air Force base that controlled nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles.”