How China Gathered Information From Social Media Revealed

Chinesebrought many restrictions to the technology sector in 2021. the government; The pressure on technology giants, game companies and cryptocurrencies caused many bans and companies to withdraw from the country. In the past days, we shared with you that the global version of the giant game platform Steam was banned in the country.

In addition, we conveyed to you that last year, China collects information from the USA through LinkedIn. Now it has emerged how the country collects user data from popular social media platforms Facebook and Twitter.

Data is collected over a network system called ‘Public Opinion’

The research, published by the Washington Post, one of the largest newspapers in the USA, revealed how the country collects information. In the study, in which many contracts, company files and bid documents were analyzed, it was stated that China has been collecting data over the network system once in the past ten years. This network system, which warns the authorities against content that can be considered as sensitive to political issues,public opinion‘ was given the name.

The ‘public opinion’ system is a collection of information gathered from names such as academics and foreign journalists through social media. to create a databaseIt was among the news that he did this with a state-based media software worth 320 thousand dollars. In addition, it was reported that the system hosts an intelligence program used by the Beijing police to analyze social media conversations, and in a cyber center in the Xinjiang Uygu Autonomous Region, content prepared in Uyghur is cataloged and recorded in the database.

Mareike Ohlberg from the German Marshall Foundation in the USA also noted that China uses data collection and tracking systems in different countries: “Now they also collect data from abroad. If we look at the latest state of the system, it is quite eerie I can say that” used the phrases.

government’s Internet control policies in this network system, which is stated to be a part of; It is stated that more than 2 million analysts are working and the system is worth billions of yuan. When we look at China’s pressure on the internet and technology, it would probably not be wrong to predict that this system will grow and bans and restrictions may increase.