ERIKA KINETZ

May 10, 2021 at 9:10 pm

Army of fake fans online boosts China’s global messaging

BRUSSELS (AP) — China’s ruling Communist Party has opened a new front in its long, ambitious war to shape global public opinion: Western social media....

Business

May 10, 2021 at 9:07 pm

Army of fake fans boosts China’s messaging on Twitter

BRUSSELS (AP) — China’s ruling Communist Party has opened a new front in its long, ambitious war to shape global public opinion: Western social media....

Business

February 14, 2021 at 9:06 pm

Takeaways: AP investigation of China COVID-19 disinformation

BRUSSELS (AP) — As the coronavirus spread last year, former President Donald Trump and leading U.S. conservatives floated the idea that the virus may have...

Business

February 14, 2021 at 9:04 pm

COVID conspiracy shows vast reach of Chinese disinformation VIEW

BRUSSELS (AP) — It took just three months for the rumor that COVID-19 was engineered as a bioweapon to spread from the fringes of the...

Business

February 14, 2021 at 9:03 pm

Anatomy of a conspiracy: With COVID, China took leading role VIEW

BRUSSELS (AP) — The rumors began almost as soon as the disease itself. Claims that a foreign adversary had unleashed a bioweapon emerged at the...

Business

December 20, 2020 at 9:01 pm

Report: Social media manipulation affects even US senators

BRUSSELS (AP) — The conversation taking place around two U.S. senators’ verified social media accounts remained vulnerable to manipulation through artificially inflated shares and likes...

Business

May 4, 2020 at 9:03 pm

Issaquah couple’s nightmare: held in China for years, away from daughter VIEW

Daniel Hsu and his wife, Jodie Chen, were blocked by Chinese authorities from returning home to suburban Seattle in August 2017, effectively orphaning their 16-year-old...

Local News

March 26, 2020 at 2:03 am