A massive data leak shows tens of thousands of Aussies, from celebs to the PM and his family, are being traced by China for “psychological warfare”.
Researchers say the massive collection of information is being used as a “psychological warfare” tool to manipulate public opinion in Australia.
“The data was crawled from such well known platforms as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn as well as others,” a“In addition to personal information, they logged information on posts, likes, and retweets. This allowed for a wide variety of relationship and key person targeting.” Researchers found that, once the company had created a “profile” from the data, including a photo taken from public sites the targets maintained accounts on such as Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn, it was stored on publicly available Chinese servers with links for each individual.
They say it is also possible for China even in individualised meetings be able to craft messaging or target the individuals they deem necessary to target.
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