No ‘negative’ news: How China censored the Covid-19 pandemic
At a time when digital media is deepening social divides in Western democracies, China is manipulating online discourse to enforce the Communist Party’s consensus. Updated: December 23, 2020 12:16:50 pm
Thousands of internal directives and reports reveal how Chinese officials stage-managed what appeared online in the early days of the outbreak. (Adam Maida for ProPublica/The New York Times)
Written by Raymond Zhong, Paul Mozur, Jeff Kao and Aaron Krolik
In the early hours of Feb. 7, China’s powerful internet censors experienced an unfamiliar and deeply unsettling sensation. They felt they were losing control.
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Leaked Documents Show How China’s Army of Paid Internet Trolls Helped Censor the Coronavirus ProPublica 12/19/2020 by Raymond Zhong, Paul Mozur and Aaron Krolik, The New York Times, and Jeff Kao, ProPublica
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In the early hours of Feb. 7, China’s powerful internet censors experienced an unfamiliar and deeply unsettling sensation. They felt they were losing control.
The news was spreading quickly that Li Wenliang, a doctor who had warned about a strange new viral outbreak only to be threatened by the police and accused of peddling rumors, had died of COVID-19. Grief and fury coursed through social media. To people at home and abroad, Li’s death showed the terrible cost of the Chinese government’s instinct to suppress inconvenient information.
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Tech Companies, Scientists Profit From Surveilling Uyghurs
Posted by Joseph Brouwer | Dec 17, 2020
Alibaba’s website for its cloud computing business showed how clients could use its software to detect the faces of Uighurs and other ethnic minorities within images and videos, according to pages on the site that were discovered by the surveillance industry publication IPVM and shared with The New York Times. The feature was built into Alibaba software that helps web platforms monitor digital content for material related to terrorism, pornography and other red-flag categories, the website said.
[…] “As government regulation gets stricter by the day, these are tasks that all websites and platforms must urgently handle and manage seriously,” Alibaba’s website explains. The company is China’s leading provider of cloud services and a partner to international companies that have online operations in China.
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Alibaba offered clients âUighur-detection-as-a-service,â study finds
The e-commerce giant claims it only tested the feature
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Ten days after reports emerged that Chinaâs biggest tech firm has tested an AI âUighur alarm,â the countryâs largest e-commerce company has been exposed for offering face-scanning software that identifies members of the persecuted group.
Internet giant Alibaba provided âUighur-detection-as-a-serviceâ
 that could send customers an alert when a Uighur person was identified, according to a report by video surveillance researchers IPVM.
IPVM is the same organization that revealed Huawei had validated software that recognized Uighurs, after discovering an internal report on the companyâs own European website.
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