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abhibeckert@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Because China has a long and proven track record of using social media to harm democratic processes.

For example - they just used social media to flood the US government with complaints by people who don’t even understand what they’re complaining about.

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isles@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Spy balloon update

Later Thursday, Pentagon press secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said that the balloon not only did not transmit data back to China – it never collected any.

“We’re aware that it had intelligence collection capabilities, but it was our – and it has been our – assessment now that it did not collect while it was transiting the United States,” Ryder said

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- vinyl@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Link leads to “page unavailable”
  
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  - isles@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Thanks, I had stripped out too much link metadata, it’s working now.
    
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Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
That’s because the next couple balloons were launched by schools in the US and Canada. There was more than one balloon.

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marx2k@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Will it, though?

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