#information-operations

#information-operations

Russian tanks rolled toward the borders of Georgia, the battle had already begun-shaped decisively by large-scale cyberattacks and cognitive warfare. Weeks before the first shots, cyberspace erupted with coordinated attacks crippling Georgian government and media websites, including distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) and defacements. Simultaneously, state-controlled and aligned media saturated both domestic and international audiences with fabricated narratives portraying Georgian aggression, warnings of impending genocide in South Ossetia, and accusations blaming the U.S. for encouraging Georgian belligerence through NATO membership promises.

The logic then follows that the CCP would also implement similar controls over the U.S. version of the app, and there's long been speculation that Chinese officials could use this power to seed censoring anti-China narratives.