Sensing a growing anxiety among general public in China over AI. CCTV did a segment on Seedance 2.0 the other day and the bilibili comments were all questioning if AI will actually lead to a better future. Seen a lot of social media posts complaining about AI’s negative impact in the workplace.

Substack is like glorified 公众号

The China media circle here is way too 卷 like what do you mean I’m competing with graduates of Yale and Princeton for some entry level job come on shouldn’t you guys be working at JP Morgan or something

Insane. Rich Chinese man from Xinjiang had over 20 kids in California through surrogacy, kept them in his mansion, abused them, lost almost all of them to forester families, and is still allowed to have more babies.

Okay what's really going on with this Lunar New Year and Chinese New Year thing like is this just the latest manufactured controversy or do some Chinese people have like legit concerns that their culture is being erased..?

Video game is actually the only logical medium for this one of the most overrated franchises. First movie was fantastic but then they just copied and pasted it three more times with increasingly comical fights. Might as well just call it Captain Underworld and have him join the avengers.

I'd like to know the backstory of the invention of doubles luge

A simple technical test reveals that Alibaba's Qwen3 AI models have been broadly aligned to give positive messages about China in English. chinamediaproject.org/2026/02/09/t...

You met Eileen Gu at a very Chinese time in her life (every fours years)

I expected the cuts would be bad but I'm honestly stunned and sickened seeing how many great journalists the Washington Post just lost. People who nailed huge investigations, documented war zones, exposed horrific crimes, dropped all at once for failures they did not cause.

From X’s head of product. Is this the first time someone from Twitter/X confirms it? I thought it was only a theory in the past

Finally decided to listen to Lao A's content (the guy who coined the term "kill line") and it's insane how many false claims he made just a couple of minutes in: 21% of Americans are illiterate; 93-day average medical appointment wait time; companies would fire you if you get sick. Phenomenal stuff.

The image and headline they chose for that Newsweek article on DSA and China were definitely clickbait but it was an interesting read. One thing that really stood out to me about last year's (and the ongoing) China craze in the US is how much it resembles the narratives that Beijing has been pushing

So the CIA just released a video in Chinese giving instructions on how to safely contact them from inside China…

THREAD: Viral misinformation on US capture of Nicolas Maduro - 4 January This video, shared by Alex Jones and others, falsely claims to show millions of Venezuelans in Caracas celebrating Maduro's capture. In fact, it shows anti-Maduro protests in July 2024 over a highly disputed election.

Interesting how opposing factions of the Chinese internet have found positive angles in the Venezuela news: For critics of Beijing, the US taking out foreign dictators is always welcome news; while pro-gov't nationalists say this sets a precedent for China to invade Taiwan in a similar manner.

How does a viral social media post snowball into a global fake news story? @wenhao.bsky.social retraces the path, one misleading report at a time, in this piece about China's alleged law to curb online misinformation.

"In total, of the four sources MoneyWise listed to prove the existence of a new Chinese influencer law, none were primary sources . . . they were all news articles based on other news articles based on other news articles. Eventually, Yahoo Finance reposted the MoneyWise piece"

This is so so fascinating, and just a sign of how hard it is to source stuff right now

funny how a story about a law combating misinformation was itself completely made up and... misinformation

Remember that flashy new Chinese law about fining influencers 100k RMB for spreading bad information? It doesn't exist, it was made up by a Facebook page called Enséñame de Ciencia and @wenhao.bsky.social has a great breakdown of why you *think* it does

A new Chinese law regulating influencer speech has gotten applause from social media users and commentators who want similar policies in their own countries. But the truth is far from what's in the news and it's a sad reflection of our internet and media space. wenhao.substack.com/p/anatomy-of...

A new Chinese law regulating influencer speech has gotten applause from social media users and commentators who want similar policies in their own countries. But the truth is far from what's in the news and it's a sad reflection of our internet and media space. wenhao.substack.com/p/anatomy-of...

Posted this when VOA's fate was in limbo. Now that my time with the agency has been officially over and having spent a few months handling personal matters, I'm back to job hunting and open to any full time, part time and freelance opportunities that are either US based or remote. Send me a message!

Posted this when VOA's fate was in limbo. Now that my time with the agency has been officially over and having spent a few months handling personal matters, I'm back to job hunting and open to any full time, part time and freelance opportunities that are either US based or remote. Send me a message!

The SaveVOA account on X, which is part of Voice of America workers’ effort to rally the public to prevent the agency from being shut down by the Trump administration, has just been suspended by the social media platform for “violating rules against inauthentic accounts”.

Trump's attacks on Krebs only compound the stress at CISA: "'It’s a really tough time for all of us right now,” said [CISA] employee. 'Every day feels somehow more bizarre than the last. It is incredibly difficult to focus on our mission.'" www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...

THREAD: When @thekrebscycle.bsky.social and his workplace, @sentinelone.com, were singled out by Donald Trump on Wednesday, I thought it was an opportunity to weigh the cybersecurity industry's rhetoric against their real world actions.

Warfare was so intense from start to finish my back hurt afterwards

Trump has signed an EO to investigate and revoke the clearances of one of his top cybersecurity officials from the first admin, former CISA director Chris Krebs - who famously confirmed the integrity of the 2020 election.

Trump going after his former CISA director @thekrebscycle.bsky.social, who debunked his 2020 lies. He just ordered a probe of Krebs' leadership of CISA (including any "censorship"), revoked Krebs' clearances, and suspended those of his @sentinelone.com colleagues. www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

Art of the deal suggests he can also pause the pause any time he wants

BREAKING President Trump is threatening to slap an additional 50% tariff on China if it does not withdraw its retaliatory 34% tariff on the United States. This would mean US tariffs on Chinese would be 104%

Among the many other stupid things about today is that Trump's reported deal to save TikTok appears to let it keep running exactly as is without addressing the reasons Congress banned it in the first place www.platformer.news/trump-tariff...

lol what district elected a former Soviet assassin who killed JFK?

apologies for repost from the bad place, but PRC messaging around Taiwan-focused drills getting genuinely alarming. depicting the targets of military actions as insects or parasites a pretty classic precursor. x.com/globaltimesn...

I don't know how to feel about OpenAI removing restrictions on image generation

BREAKING: President Donald Trump aims to reshape the Smithsonian museums and zoo with an order targeting funding to programs with "improper ideology."

This viral image of Pikachu appearing in the ongoing protests in Turkey is AI-generated and fake. An analysis by GetReal Labs found "strong evidence of synthesis", including distorted police labels. There are genuine videos of Pikachu running from police in Antalya. But this viral image is fake.

So I dived deep into the online & offline activities of Maye Musk, Elon's mom. Here, she has immersed herself into the Trump power circles and partisan narratives; but in China, she's still the fashion influencer who visits "nearly every month" and poses with Chinese art and Tesla cars.

NEW: How Elon Musk’s SpaceX, a major military contractor, secretly allows investment from China. Court records reveal execs there see $ from China as fraught but will let it in if it comes through secrecy hubs like the Caymans. www.propublica.org/article/elon... w/ @josh-kaplan.bsky.social

TikTok deleted 25 videos that I flagged were falsely claiming green card holders had been banned from entering or leaving the United States starting on March 21st. The videos had been seen more than 21 million times. fakedup.org/tiktok-has-a...

There is no real limiting principle on the basis the Trump admin is using to justify deportation of legal immigrants. Can immigrants talk about human rights in China without "undermining" American foreign policy? Or mock Putin? Or criticize the "51st state" rhetoric? www.thefire.org/news/should-...

In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

China's Ministry of Public Security are hiring news editors. And the criteria are fascinating. +*Male only* +Beijinger only +Loyal to the Party (obv) +Can't have studied/lived abroad for 6 months. +No relative living abroad or married to a foreigner. And that's the start. 1/3