{"id":58821,"date":"2023-09-29T04:53:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T19:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/28\/chinas-manipulation-of-media-threatens-global-freedoms-says-us-report"},"modified":"2023-09-29T04:53:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T19:53:22","slug":"chinas-manipulation-of-media-threatens-global-freedoms-says-us-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58821","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s manipulation of media threatens global freedoms, says US report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Censorship, data harvesting and purchases of foreign news outlets could lead to \u2018sharp contraction\u2019 of freedom of expression<\/p>\n<p>China is manipulating global media through censorship, data harvesting and covert purchases of foreign news outlets, according to a new report from the US state department, which warned the trend could lead to a \u201csharp contraction\u201d of global freedom of expression.<\/p>\n<p>The report released on Thursday found that Beijing had spent billions of dollars annually on information manipulation efforts, including by acquiring stakes in foreign media through \u201cpublic and non-public means\u201d, sponsoring online influencers and securing distribution agreements that promote unlabelled Chinese government content.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/28\/chinas-manipulation-of-media-threatens-global-freedoms-says-us-report\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Censorship, data harvesting and purchases of foreign news outlets could lead to \u2018sharp contraction\u2019 of freedom of expressionChina is manipulating global media through censorship, data harvesting and covert purchases of foreign news outlets, according t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":755,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,458,50,839,457,238,58,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-censorship","category-china","category-data-protection","category-freedom-of-speech","category-media","category-technology","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/755"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58822,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58821\/revisions\/58822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}