Six U.S. Intelligence officials from six separate agencies have reported that Chinese agents are using American’s fear against them using social media platforms. Do you remember the talk of a “nationwide lockdown?”
These intelligence officials report that Chinese agents started one specific campaign during the early stages of the outbreak.
This is not far-fetched. It is a fact that we lost in Vietnam because of the infiltration of communist agents in our colleges, provoking riots. This is old stuff for the communist party of any country. Don’t forget that China murdered 50 million of its citizens during the cultural war. This is the same communism that held back hundreds of millions during the Cold War and kept them in a sealed cage for 70 years of communism. Their tactics are wicked, sneaky, and without remorse for human life.
China needs America open, American Corporations who use China need America open; otherwise, they all lose profits. So, both are using Propaganda to get America open; they use the simple-minded people here for that purpose. They brainwashed these poor people into believing the virus isn’t that bad.
Now, as many Americans are out of work amid stay-at-home orders, Chinese agents have played on these times of economic hardship using social media to further sow public dissent against the Trump administration’s handling of the crisis.
For the U.S. intelligence officials, the use of text messages to spread misinformation was new — SMS and WhatsApp interactions are more difficult to track by law enforcement than activity on social media.
Sen. Angus King, an independent from Maine, told the Times that private citizens have also identified some online bots that helped organize recent lockdown protests via social media.
Mimicking approaches used by Russian trolls, Chinese agents do not create all the messages, but, instead, help amplify the existing ones. They take a Facebook post written by an American and help it gain more traction on the platform, further fanning political divides. [Fox News]
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The Chinese are also trolling for divisiveness. Look at the unrelated postings designed to foment disagreement within conversations. It’s pretty obvious for the most part.
Research conducted by the Alliance for Securing Democracy found “Beijing is increasing its presence on western social media platforms and taking a more confrontational approach to information manipulation that draws on Russia’s tactics.”
Those tactics include amplifying conspiracy theories and spreading misinformation to sow doubt about established facts, according to the Washington, D.C.-based national security advocacy group. [Fox News]
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I hope EVERYONE that reads this sees that the CCP is deliberately trying to sow discord and hate among us Americans. Do you all realize this? If they can make us hate each other, it’s easier to move in and destroy from within. We NEED and must do better and realize these trolls here and elsewhere cannot be allowed to win.
Another way of fixing this mess is to buy America first. The power is in your wallet. Buy anywhere but “Made in China” designed to fail products. Buy America first and then from our allies. Americans can send China a message without any help from our government.
According to the New York Times, one of the messages sent by Chinese agents claimed, “They will announce this as soon as they have troops in place to help prevent looters and rioters.” The message falsely claimed an unnamed Department of Homeland Security official says he “got the call last night and was told to pack and be prepared for the call today with his dispatch orders.”
The White House National Security Council was forced to release this message to calm fears; “Text message rumors of a national #quarantine are FAKE. There is no national lockdown,” the agency tweeted on March 15. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) “has and will continue to post the latest guidance on #COVID19.”
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Text message rumors of a national #quarantine are FAKE. There is no national lockdown. @CDCgov has and will continue to post the latest guidance on #COVID19. #coronavirus
— NSC 45 Archived (@WHNSC45) March 16, 2020
My sister and her husband received this message on their phone. It referenced the Smith Act, which is something that gives power to FEMA during a natural disaster. All one had to do was educate themselves on the facts, and they’d see it was crap. That’s the problem with everyone staring at their phones 24/7.
They make/take no time to educate themselves on the many things they know nothing about, and China is playing on many of them.
Ignorant people will say, “the longer the U.S. stays shut down, the better for the Chinese. The longer the U.S. is off the world market, the better the Chinese have of making inroads and spreading Propaganda.” But if you step back and take a logical look at the situation, the United States is by far the largest consumer of Chinese manufactured goods. The Chinese economy is in free fall until we reopen our country and begin to ingest their products again.
They can’t afford for this country to be at home.
This piece was written by Wayne Dupree on April 23, 2020. It originally appeared in WayneDupree.com and is used by permission.
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