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China Harvests Droves of Data From Western Social Media

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China Harvests Droves of Data From Western Social Media

According to a new report from The Washington Post, China is tapping Western social media to provide its military and police with information about foreign targets. This revelation came after reviewing hundreds of Chinese bidding documents, contracts and company documents.

The new report claims that China has a nationwide data monitoring service network that has been developed in the past decade to warn officials of politically sensitive information online.

The software is aimed at domestic Internet users and media, and also collects data on foreign targets from sources such as Twitter, Facebook, and other Western social media. Documents visited by the Washington-based publication also showed that Chinese institutions, including the official media, the Ministry of Propaganda, the police, the military, and network regulators are buying new or more complex systems to collect data.

The report pointed out that China’s official media software programs mine Twitter and Facebook to create a database of foreign journalists and scholars.

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The report further revealed that an intelligence project of the Beijing police analyzed Western content about Hong Kong and Taiwan. It also cataloged Uyghur content abroad. “Now we can better understand the underground network of anti-China personnel,” said a Beijing analyst who works in a unit reporting to China’s Central Propaganda Department.

According to the report, the department was responsible for producing a data report on how negative content related to Beijing’s top leaders was spread on Twitter, including profiles of individual scholars, politicians, and journalists.

Mareike Ohlberg, a senior researcher at the German Marshall Fund, quoted the German Marshall Fund as saying: “They are now adjusting part of their efforts outwards. Frankly speaking, this is terrible. Look at the huge volume and scale that this brings within China.” The Washington Post. She added: “This does show that they now feel that it is their responsibility to defend China overseas and fight public opinion overseas.”

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Tom Holland to star alongside Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan’s next, will juggle that with Spider-Man 4 in 2025

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Tom Holland to star alongside Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan’s next, will juggle that with Spider-Man 4 in 2025

Tom Holland, last seen in Apple TV show The Crowded Room last year, has signed his next with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Christopher Nolan.

Tom Holland is going to have a very busy 2025. As per The Hollywood Reporter, the actor has signed Christopher Nolan’s next, which he will juggle the filming of with that of the long-awaited Spider-Man 4. (Also Read – Tom Holland shares why he left alcohol behind: ‘Struggling without booze…’)

Tom signs Nolan’s next

This will mark the first collaboration between Tom and Christopher. While details of his next directorial aren’t known yet, it’s most likely not to have a contemporary setting. It’ll be either set in the past like, his previous film Oppenheimer (2023), or in the future like Interstellar (2014). Matt Damon, who has worked with Christopher in both, has also come on board his next.

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Christopher’s next will be co-produced by him and his wife Emma Thomas’ banner Syncopy Inc and Universal Pictures, as the two production houses will team up after the Academy Award-winning blockbuster Oppenheimer last year. Prior to Oppenheimer, Christopher collaborated mostly with Warner Bros before having a fallout post the debacle of Tenet (2020).

Warner Bros then went on to produce Greta Gerwig’s musical satire Barbie, which clashed with Oppenheimer at the box office and even outperformed it globally. Warner Bros offered Christopher a cheque for the fees he waived off for helming Tenet during the pandemic. While Christopher graciously accepted the belated remuneration, he still went on to pitch his next to Warner Bros.

Tom’s busy schedule

Tom didn’t have any release this year. His last outing was Todd Graff’s psychological thriller show The Crowded Room on Apple TV last year. He’ll juggle the filming of Christopher Nolan’s next and Spider-Man 4 in 2025. Tom has been playing the superhero ever since Russo Brothers’ 2016 blockbuster Captain America: Civil War. He’s slipped into the Peter Parker shoes post that for three standalone films and two Avengers movies. Spider-Man 4 will be helmed by Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton.

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As Tom’s girlfriend and co-star Zendaya will be busy filming Spider-Man 4 in 2025, she’ll reprise her role of Chani in Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi spectacle Dune 3 only in 2026. Meanwhile, Tom is also likely to make an appearance as Spider-Man in Russo Brothers’ Avengers: Doomsday, which will go on floors in the spring of 2025.

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