China’s Cyberwar Against Hong Kong
There’s no “great firewall” in Hong Kong, so Beijing officials are resorting to fake news campaigns and cyberattacks to foil protesters.
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Episode Notes
In this episode Aaron Mak learns about all the ways China is using cyberwarfare to disrupt the efforts of protesters in Hong Kong. His guest is Nick Frisch, a fellow at Yale’s Information Society Project and a scholar of media and technology in the Chinese-speaking world. Frisch was recently in Hong Kong as a fellow at the Journalism and Media Studies Center at Hong Kong University.
After the interview, Shannon Palus joins the show for this week’s edition of Don’t Close My Tabs.
Stories discussed on the show:
“8chan Is a Normal Part of Mass Shootings Now,” Slate
“Fueling the Hong Kong Protests: A World of Pop-Culture Memes,” New York Times
Podcast production by Cameron Drews.
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