Two Reuters journalists had their identities faked by an unknown person or people who then used sham social media accounts to engage with #Chinese activists on several online platforms over several months. Jessie Pang Brenda Goh reuters.com/business/media…

It's been a while since I wrote about smartphones and politics wired.com/story/russia-n… via WIRED

Commented. “ICC’s decision to arrest Putin should worry #China. While Putin faces potential prosecution for his crime of forcibly deporting Ukrainian children, Chinese officials have been implicated in the same offense of separating #Uyghur and other Turkic children.”

The BBC today has warned staff about having TikTok on corporate phones unless there is an editorial or business reason. Yes, this does affect me. But bigger picture: TikTok denies any data sharing with China. Nobody has found a smoking gun. And yet the fears grow louder

"Let Chinese-Soviet Friendship Live Forever!" poster, PRC, 1959.

Chinese construction workers (accidentally?) destroy WWII monument in Serbia. I guess it could be worse, construction workers in Nanjing once destroyed a 1800-year-old historical tombs to build an IKEA 🫠 #nemaodmoradoktrajeobnova

Fascinating reporting from wsj 👇

“The logic of events dictates we become a Chinese resource colony. Our servers will be from Huawei. We will be China’s major suppliers of everything. They will get gas from Power of Siberia. By the end of 2023 the yuan will be our main trade currency.” on.ft.com/3YX12hK

Beyond TikTok, Dutch tell government staff to uninstall Chinese, Russian apps politico.eu/article/the-ne…

People.

⚡️EXCLUSIVE⚡️ from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty/Настоящее Время We obtained files from closed door meetings between Russian🇷🇺 & Chinese🇨🇳 officials in 2017 and 2019 that show behind-the-scenes talks on practical cooperation & sharing best practices for internet censorship rferl.org/a/russia-china…

For my first article for MIT Technology Review I dive into what went wrong with the tech industry in Russia after the war. Thanks to everyone who spoke to me! technologyreview.com/2023/04/04/107…

The allegations from former bytedance exec Yintao Yu against tiktok/douyin are a bombshell. But we knew that douyin was full of nationalist propaganda for a while, it's China’s social media policy: scmp.com/abacus/culture…

Happy to announce I will be joining this year's Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence supported by BIRN! Hit me up if you want to talk about migration and technology

This is bad news for everyone reporting on Russia these days (and wider)

I wrote a thing for the The Verge theverge.com/2023/7/7/23786…

Direct democracy, Yannis Varoufakis and... gaming? I really enjoyed writing this piece for Slate (and remembering the hours I spent at frustrating student plenums during my misspent, wannabe revolutionary youth) slate.com/technology/202…

A fake South China Morning Post article was apparently used in a phone hacking attempt

Hong Kong Journalists Association 香港記者協會 HKJA said it is demanded by the Inland Revenue Department to pay HK$400,000 in “profits tax” after a review of its six years’ returns and warned of more taxes from other years.