As Chinese propaganda and supervision systems really act

A Trovers of internal documents He leaked from a little known Chinese company drew the curtain about how the leading tools for digital censorship were sold and export globally. Geedage Networks sells what is commercialized “big firewall” to at least four countries, including Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Ethiopia and Myanmar. The basic leak is shown in granular details of the ability that this company must monitor, intercept and hack Internet traffic. Researchers who examined the files described it as “digital authoritarianism as a service”.

But I want to focus on the other thing, documents shows: while people often look at Chinese Firewall as a unique, all-powerful development and maintenance and maintenance process in the same way as the monitoring technology in the west. Geedage cooperates with academic research and development institutions, adapts its business strategy for the fitting of the customer needs, and even rejects the rest of the infrastructure from its competitors. In Pakistan, for example, Geedage landed the employment contract with and later replace the gear that the Canadian company of Sendvine, leaked the file.

Accidentally, another leak of different Chinese companies was published this week amplifier the same point. Monday researchers at Vanderbilt University published the public Document of 399 pages From Golaki, a Chinese company that uses AI for the analysis of social media and generates propaganda materials. Missed documents, which include internal decks, business goals and notes, may have come from a dissatisfied former former employee – the last two pages accuse them of bullying workers by overpaying them and cheering long hours. The document was sitting on the open internet for months before another researcher marked Brett Goldstein, Professor Research in the School Engineering in Vanderbilt.

Golaxi’s main job differs from GEEDAGE: collects information on open sources from social media, relationships between political figures and news organizations and pushes targeted networks online through synthetic social media profiles. In a leaky document, Golaki claims that “Brand number one in intelligence data analysis” in China, servicing three main customers: Chinese Communist Party, Chinese government and Chinese army. The technology on the demo is focused on geopolitical issues such as Taiwan, Hong Kong and American elections. And unlike Geedage, it seems that Golaki only seems to the domestic government subjects as customers.

But there are also a lot of things that two companies make comparable, especially in the sense of how their companies function. And Geedage and Golaki maintain close relations with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), top research institutions related to the world in the world Nature index. And both in the market of its services to Chinese provincial government agencies, which are localized issues that want to monitor and implement budgets to supervision and propaganda tools.

Golaki did not immediately answer the request for a comment from the wired. In the previous one response In the New York Times, the company rejected data collection that targeted American officials and called disinformation from the exit report. Vanderbilt researchers say they are witnesses that the company removes pages from its website after initial reporting.

Closer than it seems

In the West, when academic scientists see the possibility of commercialization of their top research, they often become founders to launch or start the company. It doesn’t seem to be the exception. Many key researchers in the company, according to the leaky document, still take the spots in CAS.

But there is no guarantee that researchers CAS will get government grants – just like the Public University of Professor in the United States cannot bet on their federal federal contracts. Instead, they have to go after the government agency as each private company would go after clients. One document in the Curi shows that Golaki aimed to provide 42 million RMB (about 5.9 million RMB in 2020 years. Years. Another provincial police authority, as well as other potential customers, as well as other potential customers, as well as other potential customers Clients, they stated that other potential clients, as well as other potential clients.