Beijing Controls Two-Thirds of Online Chinese Media in Australia: Intelligence Agency

Beijing Controls Two-Thirds of Online Chinese Media in Australia: Intelligence Agency
Icons of WeChat and Weibo apps are seen on a smartphone on Dec. 5, 2013. Petar Kujundzic/Reuters
Epoch Times Sydney Staff
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Australia’s peak intelligence body has warned the government that Beijing has control over two-thirds of the country’s vast online Chinese-language media industry.

The Office of National Intelligence (ONI) has confidentially briefed the government on how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has co-opted leading Chinese-language news websites and WeChat accounts.