Shadow home affairs minister James Paterson issues warning about China's attempts to 'shape Australia's information system', as a new report finds vast majority of Chinese-Australians access news on platforms 'rife with foreign state disinformation'.
found that the majority of Chinese-Australians get their news from Chinese language networks or through the Chinese social media platform WeChat.
“On the positive side, it showed increasing affection and identification by Chinese-Australians with Australia it showed increasing support for democracy being the best form of government among Chinese-Australians,” Senator Paterson said. “WeChat and other Chinese language-dominated platforms that are controlled by the Chinese Communist Party are the dominant sources of news and information about the world for Chinese-Australians,” Senator Paterson said.
According to Fergus Ryan from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, this occurred because “the CCP wanted to embarrass the prime minister.”Mr Ryan said the CCP’s ability to interfere in Australian elections in this way is a threat to our democracy. According to Senator Paterson, China’s attempts to interfere in Australia’s political system is nothing new.
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