A covert campaign linked to China's security services has targeted the 16-year-old daughter of Deng Yuwen, a prominent Chinese writer in exile who has regularly criticized China and Xi Jinping. The campaign involves barraging her with sexually suggestive and threatening posts on popular social media platforms. This new tactic in China's information war represents an escalation in efforts to discredit critics of the Chinese Communist Party. Researchers at both Clemson University and Meta have identified the network behind the harassment, which occurred in the United States.
A Chinese intimidation campaign targeting a critic of the country's Communist Party has adopted a new tactic: barraging his 16-year-old daughter with sexually suggestive threats on social media. https://t.co/UeIt42ooxs
NYT reporting on how China’s security forces don’t just target their critics abroad, but also their children. “A covert campaign to target a writer critical of the country’s Communist Party has extended to sexually suggestive threats against his 16-year-old daughter.” https://t.co/2gpNbOE0vz
“A covert propaganda network linked to 🇨🇳’s security services has barraged not just Mr. Deng but also his teenage daughter with sexually suggestive and threatening posts on popular social media platforms, according to researchers at both Clemson &Meta” https://t.co/p3P7iyatIZ
"China has long sought to discredit Chinese critics, but targeting a teenager in the United States is an escalation" https://t.co/KO9LUYw9lK
New Tactic in China’s Information War: Harassing a Critic’s Child in the U.S. https://t.co/NEsTYNTVd0 A covert campaign to target a writer critical of the country’s Communist Party has extended to sexually suggestive threats against his 16-year-old daughter.
While ignoring the numerous efforts China has made to foster international collaboration, Washington's baseless accusations against China are designed to deflect attention from the U.S. policies that have restricted visas and imposed sanctions. https://t.co/pUnqcCiGFK https://t.co/5lFmnXozhb
A covert campaign to target a writer critical of China’s Communist Party has extended to sexually suggestive threats against his 16-year-old daughter. https://t.co/tACDb2lXmA
A prominent Chinese writer in exile has regularly criticized China and Xi Jinping. A covert network linked to China’s security services “has barraged...his teenage daughter with sexually suggestive and threatening posts on popular social media platforms." https://t.co/ZrqRev1Ae7
A Chinese intimidation campaign targeting a critic of the country's Communist Party has adopted a new tactic: barraging his 16-year-old daughter with sexually suggestive threats on social media. https://t.co/RZkXPl7EzJ
New tactic in China’s information war: Harassing a critic’s child in the US – The New York Times: ‘barraged not just Mr. Deng [Yuwen] but also his teenage daughter with sexually suggestive and threatening posts’ https://t.co/qQ9rZwmngI